${EnvironmentVariable} expansion in windows does not work

[bfloch]

To quote the wiki:

Environment variable expansion is also supported when passed to rex functions. The syntaxes $FOO and ${FOO} are supported, regardless of the syntax supported by the target shell.

However in my testing the environment variables do not get expanded on windows in CMD.

Only the "Python" interpreter does expand_env_vars = True, while in bash the system takes over and does the expanion.

Since on windows ${} is not supported I suggest that expand_env_vars should be set True in the CMD shell.

Is there a risk doing this?

[skral]

@bfloch Can you provide reproducible steps to what you tried, please? I am trying to understand where you're running into this issue.

[bfloch]

I will have to try again and see if this still applies.
But I do not have access to that environment till April.

[bfloch]

Closing in favor of the new issue.