[Python-3000] Unicode and OS strings
Hagen Fürstenau
hfuerstenau at gmx.net
Sat Sep 15 12:44:09 CEST 2007
>> sys.argv could be of type bytes and sys.arguments (or whatever) could be
>> a function taking an encoding parameter (which defaults to UTF-8) and
>> returning strings.
>>
> It would be pretty disruptive to ask everyone to change
> their habit of thinking of sys.argv as a list of strings.
The idea behind this was that it would preserve the non-decoding
behaviour of the present sys.argv and put the new behaviour into a new
function.
Also "argv" sounds more low-level than something like "arguments". But
of course, "argbytes" sounds even more low-level. :-)
- Hagen
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