Jean-Paul Calderone schrieb: > On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 10:00:38 -0400, Jim Jewett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> [snip] >> >>It does sound like we need a way to get to the original bytes, similar >>to sys.stdin.buffer. Is it reasonable to expose sys.argv.buffer? >>(Since this would be bytes rather than text, I assume this would be a >>single array, rather than a list of already separated arguments.) > > Without commenting on whether this is a good idea overall or not, it > would not be a single array, rather than a list of already separated > arguments, because it is given to the C main() function as an array > of char*, not a single char*. > > On Windows it's more complicated, but the same argument can probably > be applied (or it should also reflect the underlying system API on > Windows, which means on Windows it will be a single bytes object > instead of a list of them, but only on Windows. This goes beyond > even the 2.x level of low-level detail exposure).
I *hope* that on Windows, these objects will be unicode not bytes objects - the wide windows api should be used to get these values. No conversion needed. Thomas _______________________________________________ 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
