Ezio Melotti wrote:
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> Ezio Melotti <ezio.melotti@gmail.com> added the comment:
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> 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.
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> [0]: http://www.google.com/codesearch?q=lang%3Apython+environ.data&hl=en

Direct use of os.environ.data is not permitted as it is not a documented
feature, so I wouldn't worry about this.

The few uses you found are easy to fix.