I don't get any extra characters. Do they always show up, or is it possible
whatever application put the data on the clipboard put them there ?
Roger
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"aurora" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>I was using win32clipboard.GetClipboardData() to retrieve the Windows
>clipboard using code similar to the message below:
>
> http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/3722ba3afb209314?hl=en
>
> Some how I notice the data returned includes \0 and some characters that
> shouldn't be there after the null character. It is
> easy enough to truncate them. But why does it get there in the first place?
> Is the data length somehow calculated wrong?
>
> I'm using Windows XP SP2 with Python 2.4 and pywin32-203.
>
> aurora
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