There is already an existing public C API get retrieve original program arguments *as text*:

/* Make the *original* argc/argv available to other modules.
   This is rare, but it is needed by the secureware extension. */

void
Py_GetArgcArgv(int *argc, wchar_t ***argv)
{
    *argc = orig_argc;
    *argv = orig_argv;
}

Are you talking about exposing these arguments at the Python level?