[issue8776] Bytes version of sys.argv

[Marc-Andre Lemburg]

Marc-Andre Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> added the comment:

STINNER Victor wrote:
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> STINNER Victor <victor.stinner at haypocalc.com> added the comment:
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>> Using that approach would work on POSIX systems.
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> As os.environb, I think that sys.argv should not exist on Windows.
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>> Another problem I see is synchronizing the two
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> os.environ and os.environb are synchronized. It would be possible to do the same with sys.argv and sys.argvb. The implement would be simplier because it's just a list, not a dict.

+1 on adding sys.argvb for systems that use char* in main().

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