Thanks to everyone for their help. Using everyone's suggestions, this seems to work:
import win32clipboard, win32con def getclipboard(): win32clipboard.OpenClipboard() s = win32clipboard.GetClipboardData(win32con.CF_UNICODETEXT) win32clipboard.CloseClipboard() if '\0' in s: s = s[:s.index('\0')] return s -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list