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Type: Bug
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Status: Resolved
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Priority: Minor
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Resolution: Fixed
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Affects Version/s: 2.0.818
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Fix Version/s: 2.0.911
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Component/s: Metadata Edit
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Sprint:Drive
Versions 2.x of Python don't support Unicode in sys.argv on Windows, with the underlying Windows API instead replacing multi-byte characters with '?'.
We are now working around this issue using:
def win32_unicode_argv(): """Uses shell32.GetCommandLineArgvW to get sys.argv as a list of Unicode strings. Versions 2.x of Python don't support Unicode in sys.argv on Windows, with the underlying Windows API instead replacing multi-byte characters with '?'. """ from ctypes import POINTER, byref, cdll, c_int, windll from ctypes.wintypes import LPCWSTR, LPWSTR GetCommandLineW = cdll.kernel32.GetCommandLineW GetCommandLineW.argtypes = [] GetCommandLineW.restype = LPCWSTR CommandLineToArgvW = windll.shell32.CommandLineToArgvW CommandLineToArgvW.argtypes = [LPCWSTR, POINTER(c_int)] CommandLineToArgvW.restype = POINTER(LPWSTR) cmd = GetCommandLineW() argc = c_int(0) argv = CommandLineToArgvW(cmd, byref(argc)) if argc.value > 0: # Remove Python executable and commands if present start = argc.value - len(sys.argv) return [argv[i] for i in xrange(start, argc.value)]