setting the clipboard

[Brett g Porter]

"Peoter Veliki" <peoter_veliki at hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:6hnD7.320$MT2.19293225 at news.incc.net...
> I see there is a setClipboardText, but there is no getClipboardText.  How
> can this be done using getClipboardData?
>
Here's a small script that gets whatever text is on the clipboard and uses
it to do a google query (I've got it aliased to WindowsKey+G -- very handy!)

import os
import urllib
import win32clipboard as clip

clip.OpenClipboard(0)
if clip.IsClipboardFormatAvailable(clip.CF_TEXT):
   newText = clip.GetClipboardData(clip.CF_TEXT)
   # format the query string, escaping out any URL-unsafe characters.
   urlString = 'http://www.google.com/search?q="%s"' % urllib.quote(newText)
   # ...this will launch the default browser on the search.
   os.startfile(urlString)
clip.CloseClipboard()