David Hirschfield wrote: > Strange request, but is there any way to get text into the linux > copy-paste buffer from a python script ? > > I know the standard python libraries won't have that functionality > (except as a side-effect, perhaps?), but is there a simple trick that > would do it on linux? A command line to get text into the buffer? Using > a gui toolkit as a proxy to get text in there?
There's a utility called xclip that you can wrap with popen2 or something similar. I use my own proctools: import proctools XCLIP = proctools.which("xclip") es, arg = proctools.getstatusoutput("%s -o -selection primary" % (XCLIP,)) "arg" has the X selection. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list