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| From | Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> |
|---|---|
| Subject | Re: Stripping characters from windows clipboard with win32clipboard from excel |
| Date | 2013-09-19 19:58 +0000 |
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On 19/9/2013 11:53, Neil Cerutti wrote: > 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. > 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
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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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