diff --git a/nilmdb/cmdline/cmdline.py b/nilmdb/cmdline/cmdline.py
index eb2afa0..624aa5a 100644
--- a/nilmdb/cmdline/cmdline.py
+++ b/nilmdb/cmdline/cmdline.py
@@ -94,12 +94,6 @@ class Cmdline(object):
 
     def __init__(self, argv = None):
         self.argv = argv or sys.argv[1:]
-        try:
-            # Assume command line arguments are encoded with stdin's encoding,
-            # and reverse it.  Won't be needed in Python 3, but for now..
-            self.argv = [ x.decode(sys.stdin.encoding) for x in self.argv ]
-        except Exception: # pragma: no cover
-            pass
         self.client = None
         self.def_url = os.environ.get("NILMDB_URL", "http://localhost/nilmdb/")
         self.subcmd = {}