Commit 22717dff authored by Georg Brandl's avatar Georg Brandl

#837577: note cryptic return value of spawn*e on invalid env dicts.

parent 40a6164a
......@@ -1753,7 +1753,9 @@ written in Python, such as a mail server's external command delivery program.
which is used to define the environment variables for the new process (they are
used instead of the current process' environment); the functions
:func:`spawnl`, :func:`spawnlp`, :func:`spawnv`, and :func:`spawnvp` all cause
the new process to inherit the environment of the current process.
the new process to inherit the environment of the current process. Note that
keys and values in the *env* dictionary must be strings; invalid keys or
values will cause the function to fail, with a return value of ``127``.
As an example, the following calls to :func:`spawnlp` and :func:`spawnvpe` are
equivalent::
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