[issue40452] IDLE: preserve clipboard on closure

[Tal Einat]

Tal Einat <taleinat+python at gmail.com> added the comment:

Looking into this further, this seems to be an issue in tkinter rather than with tcl/tk. Running `wish a.tcl` with the following simple script does leave its text in the clipboard:

pack [text .t]
.t insert 1.0 "Test text"
clipboard clear
clipboard append -- [.t get 1.0 end]
exit

On the other hand, the following equivalent Python script leaves the clipboard empty:

import tkinter
text = tkinter.Text()
text.pack()
text.clipboard_clear()
text.clipboard_append("Testing again")

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