commit 94ba691ed34ffa1aff424876d6162b39a297e29e
author Victor Stinner <victor.stinner@haypocalc.com> Fri Dec 16 23:48:31 2011 +0100
committer Victor Stinner <victor.stinner@haypocalc.com> Fri Dec 16 23:48:31 2011 +0100
tree 3518a6f239306cac5e876012e62e28658a0be30b
parent c345ce1a69b3c4a46d87ef56d859bc70abfc74b4

main() now displays an error message before exiting if a command line argument
cannot be decoded

Modules/python.c

diff --git a/Modules/python.c b/Modules/python.c
index 18f9b3d..935908a 100644
--- a/Modules/python.c
+++ b/Modules/python.c
@@ -50,8 +50,12 @@
 #else
         argv_copy[i] = _Py_char2wchar(argv[i], NULL);
 #endif
-        if (!argv_copy[i])
+        if (!argv_copy[i]) {
+            fprintf(stderr, "Fatal Python error: "
+                            "unable to decode the command line argument #%i\n",
+                            i + 1);
             return 1;
+        }
         argv_copy2[i] = argv_copy[i];
     }
     setlocale(LC_ALL, oldloc);