Thanks, Martin v. Löwis, Neil Hodgson, and Tim Roberts. I really appreciate your valuable comments. It simply works.
Thanks again, Petr "Neil Hodgson" wrote... > Petr Prikryl: > > > I do not understand what encoding should be used > > to convert the sys.argv into unicode. > > Martin mentioned CP_ACP. In Python on Windows, this > can be accessed as the "mbcs" codec. > > import sys > print repr(sys.argv[1]) > print repr(unicode(sys.argv[1], "mbcs")) > > C:\bin>python glurp.py abcß* > 'abc\xdf\x95' > u'abc\xdf\u2022' > > Neil -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list