[Python-Dev] Adding the 'path' module (was Re: Some RFE for review)

[Neil Hodgson]

Thomas Heller:

> OTOH, Python is lacking a lot when you have to handle unicode strings on
> sys.path, in command line arguments, environment variables and maybe
> other places.  

   A new patch #1231336 "Add unicode for sys.argv, os.environ,
os.system" is now in SourceForge. New parallel features sys.argvu and
os.environu are provided and os.system accepts unicode arguments
similar to PEP 277. A screenshot showing why the existing features are
inadequate and the new features an enhancement are at
http://www.scintilla.org/pyunicode.png
   One problem is that when using "python -c cmd args", sys.argvu
includes the "cmd" but sys.argv does not. They both contain the "-c".
   os.system was changed to make it easier to add some test cases but
then that looked like too much trouble. There are far too many
variants on exec*, spawn* and popen* to write a quick patch for these.

   Neil