On Wed, Sep 18, 2013, at 16:13, Dave Angel wrote: > 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. > > Or maybe it's an example of ill-defined Windows specs.
I think it's a matter of ill-defined windows specs - the clipboard data has an exact size, and in principle that size is always used, for example, for numerous binary formats. But the text clipboard has often been treated as a C string by a wide variety of different applications, so one could argue that has become a de facto standard. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
