"env" parameter to "popen" won't accept Unicode on Windows - minor Unicode bug
John Nagle
nagle at animats.com
Mon Jan 14 19:26:51 EST 2008
I passed a dict for the "env" variable to Popen with Unicode strings
for the dictionary values.
Got:
File "D:\Python24\lib\subprocess.py", line 706, in _execute_child
TypeError: environment can only contain strings
It turns out that the strings in the "env" parameter have to be ASCII,
not Unicode, even though Windows fully supports Unicode in CreateProcess.
John Nagle
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