On Tue 2015-12-15 (11:10), Tim Roberts wrote: > > I have a python 2.7 program which runs in a console window and upload > > files. > > To specify the files, the user uses Windows drag&drop (via explorer) or > > copy&paste. > > This is hopeless. In addition to the normal difficulties in > string/Unicode conversions, you have the added limitations of the > current console code page. You simply cannot type characters in a > Windows console that are not present in your current code page.
What is the current code page? drag&drop of a file with a non-ASCII filename from the explorer into a "naked" console window works: http://fex.rus.uni-stuttgart.de/fop/dLxrxPBV/X-201512152036.png Is there no way to catch it with Python? > Your code is also making assumptions about the behavior of the console > window that are not warranted. No one promised, for example, that a > string pasted with "paste" is going to fire kbhit() continuously until > empty. So far, it works :-) > > To read it I use: > > > > file = get_paste() > > It is unwise to use the name of a built-in type as the name of a variable. Ooops. True. -- Ullrich Horlacher Server und Virtualisierung Rechenzentrum IZUS/TIK E-Mail: horlac...@tik.uni-stuttgart.de Universitaet Stuttgart Tel: ++49-711-68565868 Allmandring 30a Fax: ++49-711-682357 70550 Stuttgart (Germany) WWW: http://www.tik.uni-stuttgart.de/ REF:<567065b3.3070...@probo.com> _______________________________________________ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
