Hagen Fürstenau wrote: > sys.argv could be of type bytes and sys.arguments (or whatever) could be > a function taking an encoding parameter (which defaults to UTF-8) and > returning strings. > > Of course that's backwards incompatible and I'm not sure if it's too > late for something like this now.
It would be pretty disruptive to ask everyone to change their habit of thinking of sys.argv as a list of strings. I would suggest doing it the other way around -- have sys.argv be an object that automatically converts to unicode on access, and something else, such as sys.argbytes, for getting the raw bytes if that fails. -- Greg _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
