Aahz <aahz <at> pythoncraft.com> writes: > Yes, but do you get back the original byte strings? Maybe I'm missing > something, but my impression is that this is still an issue for the email > module as well as command-line arguments and environment variables.
The email module is, yes, broken. You can recover the bytestrings of command-line arguments and environment variables. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list