[igorsk]

Here's a little wrapper I had used to handle unicode commandline arguments.

import sys, os, ctypes, pprint
class Argvu:
    def __init__(self,CommandLine=None):
        if CommandLine==None:
            CommandLine=ctypes.windll.kernel32.GetCommandLineW()
        argv_count=ctypes.c_int()
        cmd_string=ctypes.c_wchar_p(CommandLine)
        array_memory_address=ctypes.windll.shell32.CommandLineToArgvW(cmd_string,ctypes.byref(argv_count))
        match_array_type=ctypes.c_wchar_p*argv_count.value
        self.argv=[arg for arg in match_array_type.from_address(array_memory_address)]

        #running from a script:
        #sys.argv[0] == script.py
        #our argv[0] == python.exe
        #running from an exe:
        #sys.argv[0] == prog.exe
        #our argv[0] == prog.exe
        #if we have the first case, we need to remove the interpreter from argv

        if not sys.argv[0].endswith(".exe") and self.argv[0].endswith(".exe"):
            self.argv=self.argv[1:]

        ctypes.windll.kernel32.LocalFree(array_memory_address)
    def __str__(self):
        return pprint.pformat(self.result)

argv = Argvu().argv

if __name__=='__main__':
    c2a=Argvu()
    print c2a
    print c2a.argv