def get_unicode(key):
"""Look up a environmental variable by key and return a unicode string by
decoding the byte string to unicode with utf8."""
if type(key) is not unicode:
raise UnicodeError()
byte_string = os.environ.get(str(key))
return to_unicode(byte_string)
def get_unicode(key):
"""Look up a environmental variable by key and return a unicode string by
decoding the byte string to unicode with utf8."""
return to_unicode(_get_environmental_variable(key))
