Windows XP - Environment variable - Unicode

["Martin v. Löwis"]

John Roth wrote:
> Good point. That does make it somewhat harder; the routine
> would have to precompute both versions, and store them with
> both standard strings and unicode strings as keys.

That doesn't work. You cannot have separate dictionary entries
for unicode and byte string keys if the keys compare and hash
equal, which is the case for all-ASCII keys (which environment
variable names typically are).

Regards,
Martin