Python + Win32: Cut/Paste w/o GUI

[Changjune Kim]

Check this out.
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/150115

You don't need unxutils.

"Rudy Schockaert" <rudy.schockaert at pandora.be> wrote in message
news:byCn9.146954$8o4.21689 at afrodite.telenet-ops.be...
> > I have a text file on my desktop (at work and I'm at home now, so I
> > can't post the code) with extension of 'clipdata'.  I registered a new
> > file type in windows with this extension and I created two actions.
> > The default action, runs my python script and the other action edits
> > the file.  The python program uses a popen call to the 'gclip.exe'
> > from the unxutils package (http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/) which
> > writes the clipboard data to stdout.  I read from the popoen call and
> > I have whatever was in the clipboard.  I then write this to the top of
> > the 'clipdata' file with a time stamp.  I use this a temporary holding
> > place for little scraps of code or SQL.  All I have to do is load up
> > the clipboard and then dbl-click the icon on the desktop  (I have a
> > command line function also) and the data is saved for posterity.
> > The unxutils package also has a 'pclip.exe' which sends stdin to the
> > clipboard, which I also have used with sucess.
> >
> > Hopefully this helps.  If need be I can send you the code on Monday.
> > Just email me.
> >
> > ...
> > jay
> >
>
> Jay,
>
> I think there are more people interested in that piece of code. I
certainly
> am.
> I would like to try this out. So, if you send it, can you put me in CC
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rudy
>
>