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Date: Tue,  2 Jan 2007 08:08:06 -0500
From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@swtch.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] plan9 python
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> in the Plan9lib/Plan9.py file, there is a reference to _e2s. Not
> defined anywhere.
>
> Any idea what the author might have had in mind? I'm not sure.

it was intended to convert an environment value to a string
suitable to write into the environment.  something like:

def _e2s(val):
  if type(val) is list:
    return '\x00'.join(map(_e2s, val))
  if type(val) is str:
    return val
  raise BadEnvValueException

russ