Path: csiph.com!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed4.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.002 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 1.00; '*S*': 0.00; 'win32': 0.03; 'api.': 0.05; 'string': 0.09; 'defines': 0.09; 'differently.': 0.09; 'equivalent;': 0.09; 'library?': 0.09; 'null,': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'subject:characters': 0.09; 'windows,': 0.09; 'api': 0.11; 'python': 0.11; 'bug': 0.12; 'windows': 0.15; 'name)': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'subject:windows': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'library': 0.18; '>>>': 0.22; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.23; 'string,': 0.24; '(or': 0.24; 'performing': 0.26; 'defined': 0.27; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.27; "doesn't": 0.30; 'gives': 0.31; 'that.': 0.31; '>>>>': 0.31; 'correctly.': 0.31; 'anyone': 0.31; 'interface': 0.32; 'text': 0.33; 'subject:from': 0.34; 'could': 0.34; 'problem': 0.35; 'subject:with': 0.35; "can't": 0.35; 'point.': 0.35; 'but': 0.35; 'really': 0.36; 'charset:us-ascii': 0.36; 'should': 0.36; 'level': 0.37; 'easily': 0.37; 'somebody': 0.38; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.38; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'received:org': 0.40; 'dave': 0.60; 'results.': 0.60; 'mentioned': 0.61; "you're": 0.61; 'first': 0.61; 'skip:n 10': 0.64; 'more': 0.64; 'different': 0.65; 'direct': 0.67; 'miss': 0.74; 'ending': 0.78; 'excel,': 0.84; 'job;': 0.84; 'pasting': 0.84; 'angel': 0.91 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Dave Angel Subject: Re: Stripping characters from windows clipboard with win32clipboard from excel Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 19:58:24 +0000 (UTC) References: <13c19665-6dc9-49fe-88c8-52c643892eba@googlegroups.com> <523A01C5.4080705@mrabarnett.plus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 174.32.174.35 User-Agent: XPN/1.2.6 (Street Spirit ; Linux) X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 38 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1379620726 news.xs4all.nl 15890 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:58244 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:54444 On 19/9/2013 11:53, Neil Cerutti wrote: > On 2013-09-18, Dave Angel wrote: >> On 18/9/2013 17:40, Neil Hodgson wrote: >> >>> Dave Angel: >>> >>>> So is the bug in Excel, in Windows, or in the Python library? Somebody >>>> is falling down on the job; if Windows defines the string as ending at >>>> the first null, then the Python interface should use that when defining >>>> the text defined with CF_UNICODETEXT. >>> >>> Everything is performing correctly. win32clipboard is low-level >>> direct access to the Win32 clipboard API. A higher level API which is >>> more easily used from Python could be defined on top of this if anyone >>> was motivated. >>> >>> Neil >> >> Clearly you miss the point. If the clipboard API is defined to >> return a null-terminated string, then the problem is in the >> Python library which doesn't do a strlen() (or the >> wide-character equivalent; I forget its name) on the results. > > Python can't really know if you're pasting text or a screenshot > or what. > CF_UNICODETEXT gives it a pretty good clue. But random832 has already mentioned that it's an ill-specified Windows interface; different programs deal with it differently. No way that a the Python library should deal with that. -- DaveA