unicode.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- encoding: utf-8

#from IPython.external 
import sys
import argparse

if __name__ == '__main__':
    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
    paa = parser.add_argument
    paa('-p', '--profile',
        dest='profile',type=unicode)
    print sys.argv
    argv = [ a.decode(sys.stdin.encoding) for a in sys.argv]
    print argv
    ns = parser.parse_args()
    print ns