This came up, maybe it is usefull to somebody. Later I plan to do a managing context interface to withstatement for this.
Using clipboard from Python
# Based on http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/724:
import win32clipboard as w
import win32con
from time import sleep
def get_text():
w.OpenClipboard()
d = w.GetClipboardData(win32con.CF_TEXT)
w.CloseClipboard()
return d
def set_text(to_put, the_type=w.CF_TEXT):
w.OpenClipboard()
w.EmptyClipboard()
w.SetClipboardData(the_type,to_put)
w.CloseClipboard()
def clipboard_wait():
set_text('')
# wait text to enter clipboard
while not (get_text()):
sleep(0.1)
return get_text()
print(clipboard_wait())
TrustyTony 888 pyMod Team Colleague Featured Poster
OS independent version
But the referenced source from Activestate had response, that referes to StackOverflow question that has piece of code with tkinter, which is mayby better, even sometimes I get this error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "I:\test\clip_tk.py", line 7, in <module>
while not r.selection_get(selection = "CLIPBOARD"):
File "I:\python27\lib\lib-tk\Tkinter.py", line 626, in selection_get
return self.tk.call(('selection', 'get') + self._options(kw))
_tkinter.TclError: CLIPBOARD selection doesn't exist or form "STRING" not defined
The code:
#based on http://stackoverflow.com/questions/579687/how-do-i-copy-a-string-to-the-clipboard-on-windows-using-python
from Tkinter import Tk
from time import sleep
r = Tk()
r.withdraw()
while not r.selection_get(selection = "CLIPBOARD"):
sleep(0.1)
result = r.selection_get(selection = "CLIPBOARD")
r.clipboard_clear()
#r.clipboard_append('This goes to clipboard')
r.destroy()
print(result)
TrustyTony 888 pyMod Team Colleague Featured Poster
For pyQT solution see vegaseat's post http://www.daniweb.com/software-development/python/threads/422292/getclipboarddata#post1802945
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