bpo-17110: doc: add note how to get bytes from sys.argv (GH-12602) · python/cpython@5b80cb5 (original) (raw)
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| 30 | 30 | To loop over the standard input, or the list of files given on the |
| 31 | 31 | command line, see the :mod:`fileinput` module. |
| 32 | 32 | |
| 33 | + .. note:: | |
| 34 | + On Unix, command line arguments are passed by bytes from OS. Python decodes | |
| 35 | + them with filesystem encoding and "surrogateescape" error handler. | |
| 36 | + When you need original bytes, you can get it by | |
| 37 | + ``[os.fsencode(arg) for arg in sys.argv]``. | |
| 38 | + | |
| 33 | 39 | |
| 34 | 40 | .. data:: base_exec_prefix |
| 35 | 41 |