Copy To Clipboard Highlighted Text From Text Widget

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Mon Mar 21 23:46:16 EDT 2016


On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 2:36 PM, Wildman via Python-list
<python-list at python.org> wrote:
> Thanks.  I changed the code as you (and MRAB) suggested.
>
> def copy_clipboard(self):
>     try:
>         text2copy = self.text.get(tk.SEL_FIRST, tk.SEL_LAST)
>     except tk.TclError:
>         text2copy = self.text.get()
>     root.clipboard_clear()
>     root.clipboard_append(text2copy)
>
> Works perfectly.  Thanks again.

Looks good!

For future reference, and for others reading, this was a great
question. You posted actual code, with a specific question, and it was
easy to figure out what's going on. Thank you.

ChrisA



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