Python script to copy text to clipboard

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I just need a python script that copies text to the clipboard   After the script gets executed i need the output of the text to be pasted to another source  Is it possible to write a python script that does this job

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Use Tkinter    https   stackoverflow com a 4203897 2804197  try      from Tkinter import Tk except ImportError      from tkinter import Tk r   Tk   r withdraw   r clipboard clear   r clipboard append  i can has clipboardz    r update     now it stays on the clipboard after the window is closed r destroy      Original author  https   stackoverflow com users 449571 atomizer

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Pyperclip seems to be up to the task

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See Pyperclip   Example  taken from Pyperclip site    import pyperclip pyperclip copy  The text to be copied to the clipboard    spam   pyperclip paste     Also  see Xerox   But it appears to have more dependencies

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This is an altered version of  Martin Thoma s answer for GTK3  I found that the original solution resulted in the process never ending and my terminal hung when I called the script  Changing the script to the following resolved the issue for me      usr bin python3  from gi repository import Gtk  Gdk import sys from time import sleep  class Hello Gtk Window        def   init   self           super Hello  self    init              clipboardText   sys argv 1          clipboard   Gtk Clipboard get Gdk SELECTION CLIPBOARD          clipboard set text clipboardText  -1          clipboard store     def main        Hello      if   name         main         main     You will probably want to change what clipboardText gets assigned to  in this script it is assigned to the parameter that the script is called with   On a fresh ubuntu 16 04 installation  I found that I had to install the python-gobject package for it to work without a module import error

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I try this clipboard 0 0 4 and it works well   https   pypi python org pypi clipboard 0 0 4  import clipboard clipboard copy  abc      now the clipboard content will be string  abc  text   clipboard paste      text will have the content of clipboard

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To use native Python directories  use   import subprocess  def copy2clip txt       cmd  echo   txt strip     clip      return subprocess check call cmd  shell True    on Mac  instead   import subprocess  def copy2clip txt       cmd  echo   txt strip     pbcopy      return subprocess check call cmd  shell True    Then use   copy2clip  This is on my clipboard      to call the function

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One more answer to improve on  https   stackoverflow com a 4203897 2804197 and https   stackoverflow com a 25476462 1338797  Tkinter    Tkinter is nice  because it s either included with Python  Windows  or easy to install  Linux   and thus requires little dependencies for the end user   Here I have a  full-blown  example  which copies the arguments or the standard input  to clipboard  and - when not on Windows - waits for the user to close the application   import sys  try      from Tkinter import Tk except ImportError        welcome to Python3     from tkinter import Tk     raw input   input  r   Tk   r withdraw   r clipboard clear    if len sys argv   lt  2      data   sys stdin read   else      data       join sys argv 1     r clipboard append data   if sys platform     win32       if len sys argv   gt  1          raw input  Data was copied into clipboard  Paste and press ENTER to exit          else            stdin already read  use GUI to exit         print  Data was copied into clipboard  Paste  then close popup to exit              r deiconify           r mainloop   else      r destroy     This showcases    importing Tk across Py2 and Py3 raw input and print   compatibility  unhiding  Tk root window when needed waiting for exit on Linux in two different ways

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PyQt5   from PyQt5 QtWidgets import QApplication from PyQt5 import QtGui from PyQt5 QtGui import QClipboard import sys   def main          app QApplication sys argv      cb   QApplication clipboard       cb clear mode cb Clipboard       cb setText  Copy to ClipBoard   mode cb Clipboard      sys exit app exec      if   name         main         main

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On macOS  use subprocess run to pipe your text to pbcopy   import subprocess  data    hello world  subprocess run  pbcopy   universal newlines True  input data    It will copy  hello world  to the clipboard

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This is the only way that worked for me using Python 3 5 2 plus it s the easiest to implement w  using the standard PyData suite  Shout out to https   stackoverflow com users 4502363 gadi-oron for the answer  I copied it completely  from How do I copy a string to the clipboard on Windows using Python   import pandas as pd df pd DataFrame   Text to copy    df to clipboard index False header False    I wrote a little wrapper for it that I put in my ipython profile  lt 3

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GTK3      usr bin python3  from gi repository import Gtk  Gdk   class Hello Gtk Window        def   init   self           super Hello  self    init             clipboard   Gtk Clipboard get Gdk SELECTION CLIPBOARD          clipboard set text  hello world   -1          Gtk main quit     def main        Hello       Gtk main    if   name         main         main

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