Writing to clipboard in Python 3.11

[Jim Schwartz]

It doesn't work in python 3.12.0

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From: Python-list <python-list-bounces+jschwar=sbcglobal.net at python.org> On Behalf Of Thomas Passin via Python-list
Sent: Tuesday, November 7, 2023 12:08 PM
To: python-list at python.org
Subject: Re: Writing to clipboard in Python 3.11

On 11/5/2023 7:51 PM, Rob Cliffe via Python-list wrote:
> Recently I switched from Python 3.8.3 to Python 3.11.4.  A strange 
> problem appeared which was not there before:
> I am using the win32clipboard backage (part of pywin32), and when I 
> use
> SetClipboardData() to write text which consists ENTIRELY OF DIGITS to 
> the clipboard, I either get an error (not always the same error 
> message) or a program crash.  The problem does not appear if I use
> SetClipboardText() instead.
> Sample program:
> 
> from win32clipboard import *
> OpenClipboard()
> SetClipboardData(CF_UNICODETEXT, "A")
> SetClipboardData(CF_UNICODETEXT, "A0") 
> SetClipboardData(CF_UNICODETEXT, "0A") SetClipboardText("0", 
> CF_UNICODETEXT) print("OK so far") SetClipboardData(CF_UNICODETEXT, 
> "0")
> CloseClipboard()
> 
> Sample output:
> 
> OK so far
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "R:\W.PY", line 8, in <module>
>      SetClipboardData(CF_UNICODETEXT, "0")
> pywintypes.error: (0, 'SetClipboardData', 'No error message is 
> available')
> 
> I can get round the problem by using SetClipboardText().  But can 
> anyone shed light on this?

No, but I use pyperclip.  It's cross platform.  Maybe it doesn't have this problem, though I don't know for sure.

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