Method to refresh os.environ

[steve.dower]

I’ll make the post (link will come here when posted)

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Bikeshedding: a method to refresh os.environ

There was a discussion in Ideas (no need to read, I’ll summarise here) about adding a method to os.environ to allow regenerating its contents from the current process environment. There is no clear agreement on the name. This is important because os.environ is technically a cache - variables are read at initialisation and are not updated again. Generally, a Python-only app is going to make changes through os.environ, which means it will be written to the cache and everything is fine. No need fo…