Re: [Jython-dev] jythons module os

[Kevin B. <kb...@ca...>]

Finn Bock wrote:
> 
> [Phil Surette]
> 
> >I am planning to look into adding os.environment and os.system
> >support in, basically cribbing from how ant does this, but
> >I have not had time yet.
> 
> I hope you and/or someone else find some time to look into it, it would
> be a valuable addition. I'm not sure what the right way to enable the
> os.environment should be. It isn't right to fill the os.environment dict
> whenever "os" is imported, that would be way to slow for all the program
> that never uses any enviroment variables. Any thoughts?

So I started playing with this, and didn't stop until I was basically functional.

Here's the code I came up with (it even has tests!)

I'm afraid I wrote in on NT, so testing on Unixes would be appreciated...

Comments/suggestions appreciated.

kb