[Python-3000] Unicode and OS strings

[Jean-Paul Calderone]

On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 10:00:38 -0400, Jim Jewett <jimjjewett at gmail.com> wrote:
> [snip]
>
>It does sound like we need a way to get to the original bytes, similar
>to sys.stdin.buffer.  Is it reasonable to expose sys.argv.buffer?
>(Since this would be bytes rather than text, I assume this would be a
>single array, rather than a list of already separated arguments.)

Without commenting on whether this is a good idea overall or not, it
would not be a single array, rather than a list of already separated
arguments, because it is given to the C main() function as an array
of char*, not a single char*.

On Windows it's more complicated, but the same argument can probably
be applied (or it should also reflect the underlying system API on
Windows, which means on Windows it will be a single bytes object
instead of a list of them, but only on Windows. This goes beyond
even the 2.x level of low-level detail exposure).

Jean-Paul