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py3: have bytes version of os.getenv

os.getenv() on python 3 deals with unicodes. If we want to pass bytes. we have
os.getenvb() which deals with bytes. This patch adds up a pycompat.osgetenv
which deals with bytes on both python 2 and 3.

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