From: Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>
Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 20:27:18 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Document os.getenv().
X-Git-Tag: v2.1.1c1~90
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3da898b88ffdf4edde07bc266a5dd10272b79c63;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

Document os.getenv().
This closes SF bug #429059.
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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libos.tex b/Doc/lib/libos.tex
index bc4d94753cb3..1767e378e322 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libos.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libos.tex
@@ -166,6 +166,13 @@ Return the current process' user id.
 Availability: \UNIX{}.
 \end{funcdesc}
 
+\begin{funcdesc}{getenv}{varname\optional{, value}}
+Return the value of the environment variable \var{varname} if it
+exists, or \var{value} if it doesn't.  \var{value} defaults to
+\code{None}.
+Availability: most flavors of \UNIX{}, Windows.
+\end{funcdesc}
+
 \begin{funcdesc}{putenv}{varname, value}
 \index{environment variables!setting}
 Set the environment variable named \var{varname} to the string