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authorInada Naoki <songofacandy@gmail.com>2019-03-30 05:32:08 (GMT)
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bpo-17110: doc: add note how to get bytes from sys.argv (GH-12602)
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@@ -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]``.
+
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