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

[Marc-Andre Lemburg]

Marc-Andre Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> added the comment:

Martin v. Löwis wrote:
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> Martin v. Löwis <martin at v.loewis.de> added the comment:
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> Can somebody please explain what problem is being solved with this patch?

The way os.environ is currently set up on Unix breaks applications
using the environment to pass data to helper applications.

Please see the discussion on http://bugs.python.org/issue8514
for details.

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