From a4de80a61eccb84e437b3ee3e792221a491f27db Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: iLLiCiTiT <jakub.trllo@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2020 15:41:31 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] call `.copy()` on variable env

---
 pype/lib/applications.py | 8 +++-----
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/pype/lib/applications.py b/pype/lib/applications.py
index c7d6464418..ce49eed961 100644
--- a/pype/lib/applications.py
+++ b/pype/lib/applications.py
@@ -531,15 +531,13 @@ class ApplicationLaunchContext:
         self.launch_args = executable.as_args()
 
         # Handle launch environemtns
-        passed_env = self.data.pop("env", None)
-        if passed_env is None:
+        env = self.data.pop("env", None)
+        if env is None:
             env = os.environ
-        else:
-            env = passed_env
 
         # subprocess.Popen keyword arguments
         self.kwargs = {
-            "env": copy.deepcopy(env)
+            "env": env.copy()
         }
 
         if platform.system().lower() == "windows":

From c1d0870a7e471bccabc5342f8edd5268db192d91 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: iLLiCiTiT <jakub.trllo@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2020 15:42:35 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] removed unused import

---
 pype/lib/applications.py | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/pype/lib/applications.py b/pype/lib/applications.py
index ce49eed961..94aed984fb 100644
--- a/pype/lib/applications.py
+++ b/pype/lib/applications.py
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 import os
-import copy
 import platform
 import inspect
 import subprocess

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 3/3] 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":