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| Date | 2013-09-18 20:40 +0100 |
|---|---|
| From | MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> |
| Subject | Re: Stripping characters from windows clipboard with win32clipboard from excel |
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On 18/09/2013 20:28, stephen.boulet@gmail.com wrote:
> Thanks to everyone for their help. Using everyone's suggestions, this seems to work:
>
> import win32clipboard, win32con
>
> def getclipboard():
> win32clipboard.OpenClipboard()
> s = win32clipboard.GetClipboardData(win32con.CF_UNICODETEXT)
> win32clipboard.CloseClipboard()
> if '\0' in s:
> s = s[:s.index('\0')]
> return s
>
That'll look for a null character and, if it finds one, then look for
it again. Of course, that probably isn't an issue in practice.
However, an alternative way of doing it is to use the .partition method:
return s.partition('\0')[0]
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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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