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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def __convert_env(env, encoding):
 """Environment variables should be bytes not unicode on Windows."""

    d = dict(os.environ, **(oget(env, {})))

    # workaround for Windows+Python3 environment
    if not SHOULD_NOT_ENCODE_ARGS:
        return dict((k.encode(encoding), v.encode(encoding)) for k, v in d.items())
    else:
        return d