Extensions/win32clip.py added

IPython/Extensions/win32clip.py

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+import IPython.ipapi
+import win32clipboard
+
+ip = IPython.ipapi.get()
+
+def clip_f(self,parameter_s = ''):
+       """Save a set of lines to the clipboard.
+
+       Usage:\\
+         %clip n1-n2 n3-n4 ... n5 .. n6 ...
+
+       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."""
+
+       args = parameter_s.split()
+       if len(args) == 0:
+           return None # xxx todo return clipboard text
+       
+       ranges = args[0:]
+       cmds = ''.join(self.extract_input_slices(ranges))
+       win32clipboard.OpenClipboard()
+       win32clipboard.EmptyClipboard()
+       win32clipboard.SetClipboardText(cmds)
+       win32clipboard.CloseClipboard()
+       print 'The following commands were written to the clipboard'
+       print cmds
+
+ip.expose_magic("clip",clip_f)
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