Stripping characters from windows clipboard with win32clipboard from excel

[Neil Cerutti]

On 2013-09-18, Dave Angel <davea at 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.

-- 
Neil Cerutti