I don't know if this helps but I copy data from QGIS onto the clipboard in this manner. I'm sure you can go the other way as well.
from qgis.PyQt.QtWidgets import QApplication text = 'This is a test' clipboard = QApplication.clipboard() clipboard.setText(text) Calvin On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 4:36 AM Martin Pergler <m...@pergler.org> wrote: > Can one access the internal QGIS clipboard (as defined in > qgsclipboard.h/cpp) in a python script or plugin within QGis desktop? > > I've tried QgsApplication.clipboard() and QApplication.clipboard, both of > which return a PyQt5 QClipboard object rather than a QgsClipboard. > > In a plugin I'm developing, I'd love to make use of features copied to the > clipboard in native format (e.g. via the copyOf() method of QgsClipboard). > However, if I get a QClipboard I only have access to a text() > representation, the WKT or geoJson format of the features depending > on Settings -> Options -> Data sources -> Copy features as... The same > is also accessible as -- apparently -- the only MIME type via > .mimeData().formats(). > > I'm running QGis version 3.6.3 on Win10. (Note this is dup of > https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/322878/accessing-internal-qgis-clipboard-in-python > that > I asked a week ago). > > Thanks! > > -- > Martin Pergler > m...@pergler.org > _______________________________________________ > QGIS-Developer mailing list > QGIS-Developer@lists.osgeo.org > List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
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