How do I read text from the (windows) clipboard from python?

Question

How do I read text from the (windows) clipboard from python?

Answer 1

Try win32clipboard from the win32all package (that's probably installed if you're on ActiveState Python).

See sample here: http://code.activestate.com/recipes/474121/

Answer 2

You can use the module called win32clipboard (see documentation at http://docs.activestate.com/activepython/2.5/pywin32/win32clipboard.html)

some Examples:

import win32clipboard

win32clipboard.OpenClipboard()
win32clipboard.EmptyClipboard()
data = win32clipboard.GetClipboardData()
win32clipboard.SetClipboardText(text)
win32clipboard.CloseClipboard()