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

[Neil Hodgson]

Thomas Heller:

> Not only that, all the other flags like -O and -E are also in sys.argvu
> but not in sys.argv.

   OK, new patch fixes these and the "-c" issue.

> Those are nearly obsoleted by the subprocess module (although I do not
> know how that handles unicode.

   It breaks. The argspec is zzOOiiOzO:CreateProcess.

>>> z = subprocess.Popen(u"cmd /c echo \u0417")
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
  File "c:\zed\python\dist\src\lib\subprocess.py", line 600, in __init__
    errread, errwrite)
  File "c:\zed\python\dist\src\lib\subprocess.py", line 791, in _execute_child
    startupinfo)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u0417' in
position 12: ordinal not in range(128)

   Neil