On 2013-09-18, Dave Angel <da...@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 -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
