[Python-3000] Unicode and OS strings

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Fri Sep 28 06:40:44 CEST 2007


Nicholas Bastin schrieb:
> 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.  

It doesn't. Microsoft has a conforming implementation of C for Windows
(Visual C), but Windows does not.

Regards,
Martin


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