From 0b31fe75262153a67f33b0af4506a15d4b6ccb03 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: iLLiCiTiT <jakub.trllo@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2020 15:48:43 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] make sure it's totally independent

---
 pype/lib/applications.py | 12 +++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/pype/lib/applications.py b/pype/lib/applications.py
index 94aed984fb..253ffa0ad2 100644
--- a/pype/lib/applications.py
+++ b/pype/lib/applications.py
@@ -531,12 +531,22 @@ class ApplicationLaunchContext:
 
         # Handle launch environemtns
         env = self.data.pop("env", None)
+        if env is not None and not isinstance(env, dict):
+            self.log.warning((
+                "Passed `env` kwarg has invalid type: {}. Expected: `dict`."
+                " Using `os.environ` instead."
+            ).format(str(type(env))))
+            env = None
+
         if env is None:
             env = os.environ
 
         # subprocess.Popen keyword arguments
         self.kwargs = {
-            "env": env.copy()
+            "env": {
+                key: str(value)
+                for key, value in env.items()
+            }
         }
 
         if platform.system().lower() == "windows":