> > In short: if you need to write "system" scripts on Unix, and you need them > to work reliably, you need to stick with Python 2.x.
I think, understanding the coding of the characters helps a bit. I can not figure out how the example below could not be done on other systems. D:\tmp>chcp Page de codes active : 1252 D:\tmp>c:\python32\python.exe sysarg.py a b é € \u0430 \u03b1 z arg: 1 unicode name: LATIN SMALL LETTER A arg: 2 unicode name: LATIN SMALL LETTER B arg: 3 unicode name: LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE arg: 4 unicode name: EURO SIGN arg: 5 unicode name: CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER A arg: 6 unicode name: GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA arg: 7 unicode name: LATIN SMALL LETTER Z jmf -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
