Nobody <nobody <at> nowhere.com> writes: > > On Sun, 28 Jun 2009 19:21:49 +0000, Benjamin Peterson wrote: > > >> Yes, but do you get back the original byte strings? Maybe I'm missing > >> something, but my impression is that this is still an issue for the email > >> module as well as command-line arguments and environment variables. > > > > The email module is, yes, broken. You can recover the bytestrings of > > command-line arguments and environment variables. > > 1. Does Python offer any assistance in doing so, or do you have to > manually convert the surrogates which are generated for unrecognised bytes?
fs_encoding = sys.getfilesystemencoding() bytes_argv = [arg.encode(fs_encoding, "surrogateescape") for arg in sys.argv] > > 2. How do you do this for non-invertible encodings (e.g. ISO-2022)? What's a non-invertible encoding? I can't find a reference to the term. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list