[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Can you tell I miss Unix?
by your early-nineties spelling of Windows ?
> I want to write a Python script that, when launched, will choose a
> random .sig (from a list of about 30 cool ones I've devised), and store
> the .sig text in the Windows Clipboard, so I can then paste it into any
> Windows application.
since most Python distributions comes with Tkinter, you can use Tkinter's
clipboard interface. unfortunately (at least for this use case), Tkinter re-
moves things it has added to the clipboard when the program terminates,
so you have to make sure that the program is still running when you need
the text.
here's a fortune generator that keeps posting important stuff to the clip-
board at random intervals:
import Tkinter
import random, time
# get some phrases
import StringIO, sys
stdout = sys.stdout
try:
sys.stdout = StringIO.StringIO()
import this
FORTUNES = sys.stdout.getvalue().split("\n")[2:]
finally:
sys.stdout = stdout
# create an invisible (well, not really) window
root = Tkinter.Tk()
root.withdraw()
def refresh():
fortune = random.choice(FORTUNES)
root.clipboard_clear()
root.clipboard_append(fortune)
root.after(random.randint(100, 1000), refresh)
refresh()
root.mainloop()
(since this will make it impossible to use the clipboard for anything else, you
might wish to use a button instead of a timer to update the clipboard...)
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