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Author lemburg
Recipients Arfrever, ezio.melotti, gregory.p.smith, lemburg, loewis, pitrou, vstinner
Date 2010-05-03.20:27:26
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Martin v. Löwis wrote:
> 
> Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> added the comment:
> 
> 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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Date User Action Args
2010-05-03 20:27:28lemburgsetrecipients: + lemburg, loewis, gregory.p.smith, pitrou, vstinner, ezio.melotti, Arfrever
2010-05-03 20:27:26lemburglinkissue8603 messages
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