Neil Hodgson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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".
Not only that, all the other flags like -O and -E are also in sys.argvu but not in sys.argv. > 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. Those are nearly obsoleted by the subprocess module (although I do not know how that handles unicode. Thomas _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
