Stripping characters from windows clipboard with win32clipboard from excel

[Neil Cerutti]

On 2013-09-13, stephen.boulet at gmail.com <stephen.boulet at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thursday, September 12, 2013 10:43:46 PM UTC-5, Neil Hodgson wrote:
>> Stephen Boulet:
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>> >  From the clipboard contents copied from the spreadsheet, the characters s[:80684] were the visible cell contents, and s[80684:] all started with "b'\x0" and lack any useful info for what I'm trying to accomplish.
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>>     Looks like Excel is rounding up its clipboard allocation to the next 
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>> 64K. There used to be good reasons for trying to leave some extra room 
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>> on the clipboard and avoid reallocating the block but I thought that was 
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>> over a long time ago.
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>>     To strip NULs off the end of the string use s.rstrip('\0')
>
> Hm, that gives me a "Type str doesn't support the buffer API"
> message.

Type mismatch. Try:

s.rstrip(b"\0")

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Neil Cerutti