reindent win32clip.py, add s = %clip

IPython/Extensions/win32clip.py

@@ -1,5 +1,4 b''
 import IPython.ipapi
-import win32clipboard
 
 ip = IPython.ipapi.get()
 
@@ -11,18 +10,30 b" def clip_f(self,parameter_s = ''):"
 
        This function uses the same syntax as %macro for line extraction, but
        instead of creating a macro it saves the resulting string to the
-       clipboard."""
+    clipboard.
 
+    When used without arguments, this returns the text contents of the clipboard. 
+    E.g.
+    
+    mytext = %clip
+    
+    """
+
+    import win32clipboard as cl
+    import win32con
        args = parameter_s.split()
+    cl.OpenClipboard()
        if len(args) == 0:
-           return None # xxx todo return clipboard text
+        data = cl.GetClipboardData( win32con.CF_TEXT )
+        cl.CloseClipboard()
+        return data
        
        ranges = args[0:]
        cmds = ''.join(self.extract_input_slices(ranges))
-       win32clipboard.OpenClipboard()
-       win32clipboard.EmptyClipboard()
-       win32clipboard.SetClipboardText(cmds)
-       win32clipboard.CloseClipboard()
+
+    cl.EmptyClipboard()
+    cl.SetClipboardText( cmds )
+    cl.CloseClipboard()
        print 'The following commands were written to the clipboard'
        print cmds