Access command line arguments as bytes in python3 [duplicate]

Question

Is it possible to access the raw argv elements binary content ?

$ python3 -c'import sys;print(sys.argv);' `echo -ne "\xff\x80\x00\xff"`
['-c', '\udcff\udc80\udcff']

Please note that this is not a filename encoding issue as in stackoverflow.com/questions/3557830/… or stackoverflow.com/questions/6981594/… i'm not having any text encoding issue. It's not about text. — Nope
– Nope, Commented Oct 22, 2014 at 9:01

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 12:12:49Z

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You can obtain the argv contant as bytes as follows:

#!/usr/bin/python3
import sys
arg1_bytes = sys.argv[1].encode(sys.getfilesystemencoding(), 'surrogateescape')

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