[Python-Dev] Python-3.0, unicode, and os.environ

Fri Dec 5 03:08:03 CET 2008

James Y Knight wrote:
> On Dec 4, 2008, at 6:39 PM, Martin v. Löwis wrote:
>> I'm in favour of a different, fifth solution:
>>>> 5) represent all environment variables in Unicode strings,
>> including the ones that currently fail to decode.
>> (then do the same to file names, then drop the byte-oriented
>> file operations again)
>> Yay, maybe we can have this whole discussion all over again!
>> Let's bring out all the same arguments, come to no conclusion, and let 
> it taper off unresolved, yet again! :)

My impression was that there was not enough time to do something like 
that for the soon-to-be-released 3.0, so it was deferred. Now or soon 
is the time to reconsider.
> FWIW, I still agree with Martin that that's the most reasonable solution.

FWIW2, I have much the same feeling.