On 2013-09-13, stephen.bou...@gmail.com <stephen.bou...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thursday, September 12, 2013 10:43:46 PM UTC-5, Neil Hodgson wrote:
>> Stephen Boulet:
>>
>>
>>
>> > 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> Looks like Excel is rounding up its clipboard allocation to the next
>>
>> 64K. There used to be good reasons for trying to leave some extra room
>>
>> on the clipboard and avoid reallocating the block but I thought that was
>>
>> over a long time ago.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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