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Re: Stripping characters from windows clipboard with win32clipboard from excel

From Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject Re: Stripping characters from windows clipboard with win32clipboard from excel
Date 2013-09-19 15:53 +0000
Organization Norwich University
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On 2013-09-18, Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> 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.

-- 
Neil Cerutti

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Stripping characters from windows clipboard with win32clipboard from excel stephen.boulet@gmail.com - 2013-09-12 16:01 -0700
  Re: Stripping characters from windows clipboard with win32clipboard from excel Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-09-13 00:19 +0000
  Re: Stripping characters from windows clipboard with win32clipboard from excel stephen.boulet@gmail.com - 2013-09-12 17:58 -0700
    Re: Stripping characters from windows clipboard with win32clipboard from excel MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2013-09-13 02:56 +0100
    Re: Stripping characters from windows clipboard with win32clipboard from excel Neil Hodgson <nhodgson@iinet.net.au> - 2013-09-13 13:43 +1000
      Re: Stripping characters from windows clipboard with win32clipboard from excel stephen.boulet@gmail.com - 2013-09-13 07:31 -0700
        Re: Stripping characters from windows clipboard with win32clipboard from excel Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2013-09-13 14:37 +0000
        Re: Stripping characters from windows clipboard with win32clipboard from excel stephen.boulet@gmail.com - 2013-09-13 07:38 -0700
          Re: Stripping characters from windows clipboard with win32clipboard from excel random832@fastmail.us - 2013-09-13 12:09 -0400
          Re: Stripping characters from windows clipboard with win32clipboard from excel random832@fastmail.us - 2013-09-18 15:19 -0400
  Re: Stripping characters from windows clipboard with win32clipboard from excel stephen.boulet@gmail.com - 2013-09-17 09:00 -0700
  Re: Stripping characters from windows clipboard with win32clipboard from excel stephen.boulet@gmail.com - 2013-09-18 12:28 -0700
    Re: Stripping characters from windows clipboard with win32clipboard from excel MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2013-09-18 20:40 +0100
    Re: Stripping characters from windows clipboard with win32clipboard from excel Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-09-18 20:13 +0000
      Re: Stripping characters from windows clipboard with win32clipboard from excel Neil Hodgson <nhodgson@iinet.net.au> - 2013-09-19 07:40 +1000
        Re: Stripping characters from windows clipboard with win32clipboard from excel Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-09-18 23:51 +0000
          Re: Stripping characters from windows clipboard with win32clipboard from excel Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2013-09-19 15:53 +0000
            Re: Stripping characters from windows clipboard with win32clipboard from excel Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-09-19 19:58 +0000
    Re: Stripping characters from windows clipboard with win32clipboard from excel random832@fastmail.us - 2013-09-19 10:39 -0400

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