Getting text into the copy-paste buffer...

[David Hirschfield]

Strange request, but is there any way to get text into the linux 
copy-paste buffer from a python script ?

I know the standard python libraries won't have that functionality 
(except as a side-effect, perhaps?), but is there a simple trick that 
would do it on linux? A command line to get text into the buffer? Using 
a gui toolkit as a proxy to get text in there?

I actually have a need for this, though it sounds bizarre,
thanks in advance,
-Dave

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