[issue3227] os.environ.clear has no effect on child processes

Benjamin Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: This has been fixed in the upcoming Python 2.6. -- nosy: +benjamin.peterson resolution: -> out of date status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

[issue3227] os.environ.clear has no effect on child processes

New submission from Joe P. Cool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: 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