Following an idea by Ron Adam, make sure keys and values in the
environ dict are strings (in particular, not 8-bit strings).
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_os.py b/Lib/test/test_os.py
index 2ddda8a..1f6499c 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_os.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_os.py
@@ -273,6 +273,13 @@
value = os.popen("/bin/sh -c 'echo $HELLO'").read().strip()
self.assertEquals(value, "World")
+ # Verify environ keys and values from the OS are of the
+ # correct str type.
+ def test_keyvalue_types(self):
+ for key, val in os.environ.items():
+ self.assertEquals(type(key), str)
+ self.assertEquals(type(val), str)
+
class WalkTests(unittest.TestCase):
"""Tests for os.walk()."""