[Python-3000] Unicode and OS strings (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Sat Sep 15 02:07:52 CEST 2007

On 9/14/07, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:

Guido van Rossum wrote: > Great idea, but sys.argv doesn't need to be magic for this approach to work.

Are you sure? I thought part of the problem was that if an argv entry couldn't be decoded, you got an error too soon to do anything about it. Making sys.argv lazy would avoid that.

I see. But you could also insert '?'s into the argv string.

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