Stripping characters from windows clipboard with win32clipboard from excel

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On 18/09/2013 20:28, stephen.boulet at 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]