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| author | Inada Naoki <songofacandy@gmail.com> | 2019-03-30 05:32:08 (GMT) |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2019-03-30 05:32:08 (GMT) |
| commit | 38f4e468d4b55551e135c67337c18ae142193ba8 (patch) | |
| tree | 433c93866c531d982f4c700ffdfe80f49be1a407 | |
| parent | 7444daada1270c94501d5516ab1e553b5e2b9586 (diff) | |
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bpo-17110: doc: add note how to get bytes from sys.argv (GH-12602)
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diff --git a/Doc/library/sys.rst b/Doc/library/sys.rst index 0fa5bd4..52026f6 100644 --- a/Doc/library/sys.rst +++ b/Doc/library/sys.rst @@ -30,6 +30,12 @@ always available. To loop over the standard input, or the list of files given on the command line, see the :mod:`fileinput` module. + .. note:: + On Unix, command line arguments are passed by bytes from OS. Python decodes + them with filesystem encoding and "surrogateescape" error handler. + When you need original bytes, you can get it by + ``[os.fsencode(arg) for arg in sys.argv]``. + .. data:: base_exec_prefix |