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Re: Stripping characters from windows clipboard with win32clipboard from excel

From random832@fastmail.us
Subject Re: Stripping characters from windows clipboard with win32clipboard from excel
Date 2013-09-18 15:19 -0400
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On Fri, Sep 13, 2013, at 12:09, random832@fastmail.us wrote:
> Anyway, to match behavior found in other applications when pasting from
> the clipboard, I would suggest using:
> 
> if s.contains('\0'): s = s[:s.index('\0')]
> 
> Which will also remove non-null bytes after the first null (but if the
> clipboard contains these, it won't be pasted into e.g. notepad).

I did some testing and confirmed you MUST do this - if you copy multiple
things from Excel, it may reuse this buffer and not clear the end of it.

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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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