[Python-3000] Unicode and OS strings

[Stephen Hansen]

On 9/27/07, Nicholas Bastin <nick.bastin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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).


The entry point of a Windows application is WinMain, not main; you can
create a console-only standard C application if you'd like, but its not a
Windows program. Python apps are Windows programs even if they have a
console attached. And the WinMain function passes the entire command line as
a single char* with no breaking or parsing of any kind.

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