http://blog.labix.org/2007/10/17/pythons-osenviron by Gustavo Niemeyer Mon, 16 Jan 2012 12:12:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://blog.labix.org/2007/10/17/pythons-osenviron/comment-page-1#comment-17663 Gustavo Niemeyer Thu, 18 Oct 2007 02:01:23 +0000 http://blog.labix.org/2007/10/17/pythons-osenviron/#comment-17663 Might be. This isn't a reason for this behavior in systems that do have the needed infrastructure for a good implementation, though. It should be fine to have operating-system dependent behavior on the os module for cases like that. Might be. This isn’t a reason for this behavior in systems that do have the needed infrastructure for a good implementation, though. It should be fine to have operating-system dependent behavior on the os module for cases like that.

]]> http://blog.labix.org/2007/10/17/pythons-osenviron/comment-page-1#comment-17656 Graham Dumpleton Wed, 17 Oct 2007 22:36:29 +0000 http://blog.labix.org/2007/10/17/pythons-osenviron/#comment-17656 One of the problems is that unsetenv() system call is not available on all platforms from what I remember. For example, not available on Solaris that I can find. Thus it isn't actually possibly to implement del/pop properly if working direct from C environment variables table. This is possibly why it was done the way it was. One of the problems is that unsetenv() system call is not available on all platforms from what I remember. For example, not available on Solaris that I can find. Thus it isn’t actually possibly to implement del/pop properly if working direct from C environment variables table. This is possibly why it was done the way it was.

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