[issue8603] Create a bytes version of os.environ and getenvb()

[Ezio Melotti]

Ezio Melotti <ezio.melotti at gmail.com> added the comment:

A quick search[0] also shows that environ.data is used by several projects. Changing it from str to bytes will most likely break these programs, so I'm not sure it's a good idea.
Also, if I understand correctly, on Windows os.environ.data still contains str, so it's inconsistent with other systems.
IMHO os.environ.data should contain str, whereas os.environb.data bytes. If they must share the same data I would prefer them to be both str.

[0]: http://www.google.com/codesearch?q=lang%3Apython+environ.data&hl=en

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