[New-bugs-announce] [issue3227] os.environ.clear has no effect on child processes

[Joe P. Cool]

New submission from Joe P. Cool <joe.p.cool at googlemail.com>:

If I call os.environ.clear in a python program child processes still
see the cleared entries. But when I iterate over the keys like so

names =  os.environ.keys()
for k in names:
    del  os.environ[k]

then the entries are also deleted for the child processes. Where is
the difference? Is this a bug? (Observed in Python 2.5.2)

-- 
Joe

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 68891
nosy: joe.p.cool
severity: normal
status: open
title: os.environ.clear has no effect on child processes
versions: Python 2.5

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