Getting text into the copy-paste buffer...

[kdart]

David Hirschfield wrote:
> 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?

There's a utility called xclip that you can wrap with popen2 or
something similar. I use my own proctools:

	import proctools
	XCLIP = proctools.which("xclip")
	es, arg = proctools.getstatusoutput("%s -o -selection primary" %
(XCLIP,))

"arg" has the X selection.