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-rw-r--r--Lib/subprocess.py2
-rw-r--r--Lib/test/test_subprocess.py23
-rw-r--r--Misc/NEWS3
3 files changed, 20 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/subprocess.py b/Lib/subprocess.py
index 4bcf159..06285e9 100644
--- a/Lib/subprocess.py
+++ b/Lib/subprocess.py
@@ -1169,7 +1169,7 @@ class Popen(object):
# potential deadlocks, thus we do all this here.
# and pass it to fork_exec()
- if env:
+ if env is not None:
env_list = [os.fsencode(k) + b'=' + os.fsencode(v)
for k, v in env.items()]
else:
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_subprocess.py b/Lib/test/test_subprocess.py
index e6e8b3a..3ee2e6e 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_subprocess.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_subprocess.py
@@ -331,13 +331,22 @@ class ProcessTestCase(BaseTestCase):
def test_env(self):
newenv = os.environ.copy()
newenv["FRUIT"] = "orange"
- p = subprocess.Popen([sys.executable, "-c",
- 'import sys,os;'
- 'sys.stdout.write(os.getenv("FRUIT"))'],
- stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
- env=newenv)
- self.addCleanup(p.stdout.close)
- self.assertEqual(p.stdout.read(), b"orange")
+ with subprocess.Popen([sys.executable, "-c",
+ 'import sys,os;'
+ 'sys.stdout.write(os.getenv("FRUIT"))'],
+ stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
+ env=newenv) as p:
+ stdout, stderr = p.communicate()
+ self.assertEqual(stdout, b"orange")
+
+ def test_empty_env(self):
+ with subprocess.Popen([sys.executable, "-c",
+ 'import os; '
+ 'print(len(os.environ))'],
+ stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
+ env={}) as p:
+ stdout, stderr = p.communicate()
+ self.assertEqual(stdout.strip(), b"0")
def test_communicate_stdin(self):
p = subprocess.Popen([sys.executable, "-c",
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 0ec55b6..60405dd 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -25,6 +25,9 @@ Core and Builtins
Library
-------
+- Issue #12383: Fix subprocess module with env={}: don't copy the environment
+ variables, start with an empty environment.
+
- Issue #11584: email.header.decode_header no longer fails if the header
passed to it is a Header object, and Header/make_header no longer fail
if given binary unknown-8bit input.