Python + Win32: Cut/Paste w/o GUI

[Tim Daneliuk]

Steve Holden wrote:
> "Tim Daneliuk" <tundra at tundraware.com> wrote in ...
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>>Disclaimer:  I'm *much* more comfortable with Unix innards than Win32, so
> 
> if
> 
>>the question I am about to ask is stoopid, please bear with me...
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>>I want to be able to do the following but am unclear if/how it can be
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> done:
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>>1) Write a non-GUI Python script.
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>>2) Create a shortcut in Win32 to that script.
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>>3) Copy text from an arbitrary Win32 application.
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>>4) Paste the copied text to the aforementioned shortcut/python script and
>>    have that pasted text be somehow available (argv[] ???) for use by
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> that
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>>    script.
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>>Can this be done?
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> 
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> Sadly, I don't believe that it can. Certainly attempts to drag-and-drop text
> from another window change the cursor into a "no-entry" sign over program
> icons, implying that Windows doesn't regard them as legitiamte drop targets.
> 
> Neither does the context-menu item on a program shortcut include a "Paste"
> option.
> 

Well you definitely *can* paste text to a DOS box, at least under Win2K.
You copy the text as usual, highight the DOS box and right click the mouse -
text pasted!



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Tim Daneliuk
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