Using PythonWin32 to copy text to Windoze Clipboard for Unix-stylerandom .sig rotator?

[Tim Golden]

[dananrg at yahoo.com]
| 
| I want to write a Python script that, when launched, will choose a
| random .sig (from a list of about 30 cool ones I've devised), 
| and store
| the .sig text in the Windows Clipboard, so I can then paste 
| it into any
| Windows application.

Very quick and untested answer. Look at the win32clipboard
module. Something like this (very untested):

<code>
import win32clipboard

sig = "whatever you got from your file"

win32clipboard.OpenClipboard ()
try:
  win32clipboard.SetClipboardText (sig)
finally:
  win32clipboard.CloseClipboard ()

</code>

| This way, it'll work for Outlook e-mails, Yahoo, Gmail, etc.
| 
| Also, could I use Python to programmatically set key combos to do
| certain things?

You want to look at the WM_HOTKEY message. There's an
example here:

http://timgolden.me.uk/python/win32_how_do_i/catch_system_wide_hotkeys.h
tml

HTH
TJG

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