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How do I copy a string to the clipboard on Windows using Python?
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If I have a variable var = 'this is a variable'
how can I copy this string to the windows clipboard so I can simply Ctrl+v and it's transferred elsewhere? I don't want to use anything that isn't that isn't built in, I hope it's possible.
thanks!
You can do this:
>>> import subprocess
>>> def copy2clip(txt):
... cmd='echo '+txt.strip()+'|clip'
... return subprocess.check_call(cmd, shell=True)
...
>>> copy2clip('now this is on my clipboard')
Pyperclip provides a cross-platform solution.
One note about this module: It encodes strings into ASCII, so you made need to perform some encoding/decoding work on your strings to match it prior running it through Pyperclip.
Example:
import pyperclip
#Usual Pyperclip usage:
string = "This is a sample string."
pyperclip.copy(string)
spam = pyperclip.paste()
#Example of decoding prior to running Pyperclip:
strings = open("textfile.txt", "rb")
strings = strings.decode("ascii", "ignore")
pyperclip.copy(strings)
spam = pyperclip.paste()
Probably an obvious tip but I ran into trouble until I looked at Pyperclip's code.