[issue4006] os.getenv silently discards env variables with non-UTF-8 values

[Martin v. Löwis]

Martin v. Löwis <martin at v.loewis.de> added the comment:

Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> So what's the reason this is not a bug?

It's a bug only if the implementation deviates from the specification.
In this case, it does not. The behavior is intentional: python
deliberately drops environment variables it cannot represent as a
string. We know that such environment variables can happen in real
life - that's why they get dropped (rather than raising an exception
at startup).

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