[issue2144] os.environ should inherit dict

[Georg Brandl]

Georg Brandl added the comment:

> What was the rationale for this decision?  To me it looks like a hold-
> over from the time when dicts were not subclassable.

I reckon it's faster this way, and you want basic datatypes like dict to
be fast.

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