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cameron_shiell
Occasional Contributor
5 years ago

Basic CheckProperty issue

I'm just getting started with TestComplete so I was playing around with it and the Windows Calculator.  I've created a basic python script to confirm that 1+1=2.     def basic_test(): Calcula...
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    cameron_shiell
    5 years ago

    Ah, it's got some deep unicode formatting characters on either side of it that need to be split off.  It's not brilliant, but I've added a function to do it:

     

    def strip_unprintable_characters(input_string)
    return "".join([i if ord(i) < 128 else '' for i in input_string]).strip()

     

     

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sonya_m
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Thank you Marsha!

 

cameron_shiell did the advice help you figure this out?🙂

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cameron_shiell
Occasional Contributor
5 years ago

Unfortunately not.  I've tried both

if aqString.Trim(Aliases.LandmarkTarget.Display_is_2.TextContainer.NormalOutput.Text) != 2:

and

if aqString.Trim(Aliases.LandmarkTarget.Display_is_2.TextContainer.NormalOutput.Text) != "2":

and they're both returning the same error.

 

By adding a function to convert the output to ascii, I can see that the return from the calculator is '8237508236' which translates an 'R%2R$', which is weird, but attempting to match that string also fails.

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    cameron_shiell
    Occasional Contributor
    5 years ago

    Ah, it appears 8237 is ascii for the right-to-left override, and 8236 is ascii for pop directional formatting, so it's a problem of string formatting.  What fun.

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    cameron_shiell
    Occasional Contributor
    5 years ago

    Ah, it's got some deep unicode formatting characters on either side of it that need to be split off.  It's not brilliant, but I've added a function to do it:

     

    def strip_unprintable_characters(input_string)
    return "".join([i if ord(i) < 128 else '' for i in input_string]).strip()