Class SubstitutionEnvironment

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        SubstitutionEnvironment

Known Subclasses:

• Base

Base class for different flavors of construction environments.

This class contains a minimal set of methods that handle contruction variable expansion and conversion of strings to Nodes, which may or may not be actually useful as a stand-alone class. Which methods ended up in this class is pretty arbitrary right now. They're basically the ones which we've empirically determined are common to the different construction environment subclasses, and most of the others that use or touch the underlying dictionary of construction variables.

Eventually, this class should contain all the methods that we determine are necessary for a "minimal" interface to the build engine. A full "native Python" SCons environment has gotten pretty heavyweight with all of the methods and Tools and construction variables we've jammed in there, so it would be nice to have a lighter weight alternative for interfaces that don't need all of the bells and whistles. (At some point, we'll also probably rename this class "Base," since that more reflects what we want this class to become, but because we've released comments that tell people to subclass Environment.Base to create their own flavors of construction environment, we'll save that for a future refactoring when this class actually becomes useful.)