Cut and paste to X clipboard?

[Stephen Boulet]

Stephen Boulet wrote:

> Does anyone have a code sample for cutting and pasting to the X-clipboard
> in python?

I found a solution for this thanks to the 'xsel' program:

Copy from the clipboard:

import os
s = popen('xsel').read()

Paste to the clipboard (ok this is a pia):

import os
filename = os.path.join(os.path.expanduser('~'),'.tempclipboard')
f = file(filename,'wb')
f.write(s)
f.close()
command = 'xsel < %s' % filename
os.popen(command).read()
os.remove(filename)

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Stephen      

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