Craig McQueen <pyt...@craig.mcqueen.id.au> added the comment: To further explain, I had code e.g.:
parser.add_option(u'-s', u'--seqfile', dest='seq_file_name', help=u'Write sequence file output to FILE', metavar=u'FILE') I had to remove the unicode designator for the first parameter: parser.add_option('-s', u'--seqfile', dest='seq_file_name', help=u'Write sequence file output to FILE', metavar=u'FILE') On further investigation, it looks as though the optparse module has other problems with Unicode: e.g. if I try to set a non-ASCII parameter on the command line e.g.: myprog.py -本 Then optparse can't handle that--it gets an encoding error on line 1396. What _does_ work is that an option's parameters can be Unicode: myprog.py -s 本.txt So I guess there are broader problems than the specific 2.6 to 2.7 change that I originally reported. ---------- _______________________________________ 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