From 755862e544f4d7d63ebc140eac13ef7dccaff48d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Owain Davies <116417456+OTheDev@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2023 17:51:32 +0700 Subject: [PATCH] gh-101754: Document that Windows converts keys in `os.environ` to uppercase (GH-101840) (cherry picked from commit 4e7c0cbf59595714848cf9827f6e5b40c3985924) Co-authored-by: Owain Davies <116417456+OTheDev@users.noreply.github.com> --- Doc/library/os.rst | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/Doc/library/os.rst b/Doc/library/os.rst index e5fc63afdcf57a..1f1e2fd31454c3 100644 --- a/Doc/library/os.rst +++ b/Doc/library/os.rst @@ -188,6 +188,11 @@ process and user. ``'surrogateescape'`` error handler. Use :data:`environb` if you would like to use a different encoding. + On Windows, the keys are converted to uppercase. This also applies when + getting, setting, or deleting an item. For example, + ``environ['monty'] = 'python'`` maps the key ``'MONTY'`` to the value + ``'python'``. + .. note:: Calling :func:`putenv` directly does not change :data:`os.environ`, so it's better