Python - Windows UTF-8 Cmd Input

Create win32_unicode_argv.py

	"""
	win32_unicode_argv.py
	Importing this will replace sys.argv with a full Unicode form.
	Windows only.
	From this site, with adaptations:
	http://code.activestate.com/recipes/572200/
	Usage: simply import this module into a script. sys.argv is changed to
	be a list of Unicode strings.
	"""
	import sys
	def win32_unicode_argv():
	"""Uses shell32.GetCommandLineArgvW to get sys.argv as a list of Unicode
	strings.
	Versions 2.x of Python don't support Unicode in sys.argv on
	Windows, with the underlying Windows API instead replacing multi-byte
	characters with '?'.
	"""
	from ctypes import POINTER, byref, cdll, c_int, windll
	from ctypes.wintypes import LPCWSTR, LPWSTR
	GetCommandLineW = cdll.kernel32.GetCommandLineW
	GetCommandLineW.argtypes = []
	GetCommandLineW.restype = LPCWSTR
	CommandLineToArgvW = windll.shell32.CommandLineToArgvW
	CommandLineToArgvW.argtypes = [LPCWSTR, POINTER(c_int)]
	CommandLineToArgvW.restype = POINTER(LPWSTR)
	cmd = GetCommandLineW()
	argc = c_int(0)
	argv = CommandLineToArgvW(cmd, byref(argc))
	if argc.value > 0:
	# Remove Python executable and commands if present
	start = argc.value - len(sys.argv)
	return [argv[i] for i in
	xrange(start, argc.value)]
	sys.argv = win32_unicode_argv()

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Import

import sys
import win32_unicode_argv 

Reference:
http://code.activestate.com/recipes/572200/
http://stackoverflow.com/a/846931