On 9/17/07, Stephen J. Turnbull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Note that some people are currently arguing that sys.argv should be an > array of bytes objects, and Guido has not yet said "no".
Then let me say "no" now. I'd be happy to support a lower-level API for getting at the actual bytes in the C-level argv and env (even taking into account modifications to these made by C code out of our control; and in Windows we should provide access to the command line text as well). But argv and environ should be strings. If they contain non-ASCII bytes I am currently in favor os doing a best-effort decoding using the default locale encoding, replacing errors with '?' rather than throwing exception. Others have already explained why (they are typically text entered by a user). -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ 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
