[issue3440] Starting any program as a subprocess fails when subprocess.Popen has env argument

[R. David Murray]

R. David Murray <rdmurray at bitdance.com> added the comment:

If you are passing a custom environment to a subprocess, then you must
supply everything in that environment that the program you are calling
requires in order to run.

That said, it would be a good idea to document the Windows minimum
environment requirements in the subprocess documentation.  Hopefully
someone can come up with a doc patch; as a non-Windows user I can't be
of much help with that.

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assignee:  -> georg.brandl
components: +Documentation -Library (Lib), Windows
nosy: +georg.brandl, r.david.murray
priority:  -> normal
stage:  -> needs patch
type: crash -> feature request
versions: +Python 2.7, Python 3.0, Python 3.1

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