[Python-Dev] Python-3.0, unicode, and os.environ (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Fri Dec 5 00:39:24 CET 2008


In the bug report I opened, I listed four ways to fix this along with the pros and cons:

I'm in favour of a different, fifth solution:

  1. represent all environment variables in Unicode strings, including the ones that currently fail to decode. (then do the same to file names, then drop the byte-oriented file operations again)

Regards, Martin



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