New submission from Craig McQueen <pyt...@craig.mcqueen.id.au>: Working in Japan, I find it very helpful to be able to read full Unicode arguments in Python 2.x under Windows 2000/XP. So I am using the following:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/846850/how-to-read-unicode-characters-from-command-line-arguments-in-python-on-windows/846931#846931 Brilliantly, the optparse module in Python 2.6 has worked fine with Unicode arguments. Sadly, it seems Python 2.7 is preventing this. When I try to run my program with Python 2.7, I get the following: ... File "c:\python27\lib\optparse.py", line 1018, in add_option raise TypeError, "invalid arguments" TypeError: invalid arguments It seems that the type check in optparse.py line 1018 has changed from this in 2.6: if type(args[0]) in types.StringTypes: to this in 2.7: if type(args[0]) is types.StringType: This makes it more difficult to support Unicode in 2.7, compared to 2.6. Any chance this could be reverted? ---------- messages: 109300 nosy: cmcqueen1975 priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: add_option in optparse no longer accepts unicode string versions: Python 2.7 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue9161> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
