python commmand line params from c++

[Wesley Henwood]

What is the proper way to pass command line parameters to a python
script called from C++? I'm tryng this:

path = "c:\\someDir\\someScript.py param1 param2 param3";
PyRun_SimpleFile(PyFile_AsFile( PyFile_FromString( path, "r")),
"someScript.py");

I'm getting a "format error someScript.py, line 1" when the code is
executed.

Note: The strange appearannce of the 3 python function calls nested is
not a bug, but required to prevent a run-time error.