[Python-checkins] bpo-17110: doc: add note how to get bytes from sys.argv (GH-12602)
Inada Naoki
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Sat Mar 30 01:32:13 EDT 2019
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/38f4e468d4b55551e135c67337c18ae142193ba8
commit: 38f4e468d4b55551e135c67337c18ae142193ba8
branch: master
author: Inada Naoki <songofacandy at gmail.com>
committer: GitHub <noreply at github.com>
date: 2019-03-30T14:32:08+09:00
summary:
bpo-17110: doc: add note how to get bytes from sys.argv (GH-12602)
files:
M Doc/library/sys.rst
diff --git a/Doc/library/sys.rst b/Doc/library/sys.rst
index 0fa5bd462294..52026f6a2bce 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
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