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

Nicholas Bastin nick.bastin at gmail.com
Fri Sep 28 02:28:47 CEST 2007

On 9/22/07, martin at v.loewis.de <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:

argc/argv does not exist on Windows (that you seem to see it anyway is an illusion), and if it did exist, it would be characters, not bytes.

Of course it exists on Windows. argc/argv are defined by the C standard, and say what you will about Windows, but it has a conforming implementation. argv exists on Windows exactly the way the C standard requires it - as an array of null terminated "strings". It's left as an exercise to people with more time than I to argue about the definition of the term 'string' in the C standard (since the standard itself is silent on the issue).

For what it's worth, the Python documentation does NOT guarantee that the items in sys.argv will be strings.

-- Nick

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