""" Utilities for accessing the platform's clipboard. """ import subprocess import sys from IPython.core.error import TryNext def win32_clipboard_get(): """ Get the current clipboard's text on Windows. Requires Mark Hammond's pywin32 extensions. """ try: import win32clipboard except ImportError: message = ("Getting text from the clipboard requires the pywin32 " "extensions: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/") raise TryNext(message) win32clipboard.OpenClipboard() text = win32clipboard.GetClipboardData(win32clipboard.CF_TEXT) # FIXME: convert \r\n to \n? win32clipboard.CloseClipboard() return text def osx_clipboard_get(): """ Get the clipboard's text on OS X. """ p = subprocess.Popen(['pbpaste', '-Prefer', 'ascii'], stdout=subprocess.PIPE) text, stderr = p.communicate() # Text comes in with old Mac \r line endings. Change them to \n. text = text.replace('\r', '\n') return text def tkinter_clipboard_get(): """ Get the clipboard's text using Tkinter. This is the default on systems that are not Windows or OS X. It may interfere with other UI toolkits and should be replaced with an implementation that uses that toolkit. """ try: import Tkinter except ImportError: message = ("Getting text from the clipboard on this platform " "requires Tkinter.") raise TryNext(message) root = Tkinter.Tk() root.withdraw() text = root.clipboard_get() root.destroy() return text