different behavior from idle/pycharm and shell

[MRAB]

On 2014-10-27 22:38, kiuhnm03 at yahoo.it wrote:
> Consider this code:
>
> ---
> from ctypes import *
>
> user32 = windll.user32
> user32.MessageBoxA(0, 'ok', 'ok', 0)
> ---
>
> If I run it in idle or from pycharm, the messagebox shows 'o' instead of 'ok', but if I run it from shell, it shows 'ok' like it should.
> The same happens with msvcrt.printf().
> Why?
>
You didn't say whether you're using Python 2 or Python 3, but it looks
like you're using Python 3.

There are 2 forms of the MessageBox function, one with the suffix 'A',
which uses bytestrings, and one with the suffix 'W', which uses Unicode
strings.

In Python 3, the str class is a Unicode string, so you'll want the
MessageBoxW function:

from ctypes import *

user32 = windll.user32
user32.MessageBoxW(0, 'ok', 'ok', 0)

Also, the msvcrt.printf function expects a bytestring.