This is good info...but I'm looking for the opposite direction: I want
to place some arbitrary command output text into the clipboard, not get
the current selection out of the clipboard. Any help on that end? -Dave kdart wrote: 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. -- Presenting: mediocre nebula. |
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