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.

  

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