On Mar 22, 2005, at 3:30 PM, Jeremy Conlin wrote:
I have a little python script that reads a text file and prints what it finds to the screen. Not everything it finds, of course, just the important stuff. Instead of printing to the screen, or in addition to printing to the screen, I would also like to copy the text to the clipboard so I can paste it in another application. Does anyone know how to do this?
In my searching, I have found things like Carbon.Scrap, but it has very little documentation and so is of no help to me.
One easy way is to just use the pbcopy command line tool:
#!/usr/bin/env python
import os
out = os.popen('/usr/bin/pbcopy', 'w')
out.write('my text to put on clipboard')
out.close()Another way would be to use PyObjC, NSPasteboard, etc. /usr/bin/pbcopy and pbpaste are written in Objective-C using this class. Using that method, you could do things other than ascii, rtf, or postscript.
-bob
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