Don't argparse read unicode from commandline?

Question

Running Python 2.7

When executing:

$ python client.py get_emails -a \"åäö\"

I get:

usage: client.py get_emails [-h] [-a         


        

Answer 1

You can try

type=lambda s: unicode(s, 'utf8')

instead of

type=unicode

Without encoding argument unicode() defaults to ascii.