Issue #8603: Create a bytes version of os.environ for Unix
Create os.environb mapping and os.getenvb() function, os.unsetenv() encodes str
argument to the file system encoding with the surrogateescape error handler
(instead of utf8/strict) and accepts bytes, and posix.environ keys and values
are bytes.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index a48f8ed..fdb9253 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -348,6 +348,12 @@
Library
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+- Issue #8603: Create a bytes version of os.environ for Unix: create
+ os.environb mapping and os.getenvb() function, os.unsetenv() encodes str
+ argument to the file system encoding with the surrogateescape error handler
+ (instead of utf8/strict) and accepts bytes, and posix.environ keys and values
+ are bytes.
+
- Issue #8573: asyncore _strerror() function might throw ValueError.
- Issue #8483: asyncore.dispatcher's __getattr__ method produced confusing