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Windows 10 Subsystem for Linux - Python - String to computer clipboard

I have a python script where I want to put a string on the clipboard. I have this working on Linux, Mac and earlier on Windows using cygwin. I had to change one line of code to get it to work on the respective systems. I cannot get the line copied to the clipboard in Linux subsystem under Windows 10. The line below throws an error: sh: 1: Unable to create / dev / clipboard: Permission denied. Any idea how to change this line?

os.system("echo hello world > /dev/clipboard")
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To get the contents of the clipboard on Windows, you can use win32clipboard

:

import win32clipboard
win32clipboard.OpenClipboard()
cb = win32clipboard.GetClipboardData()
win32clipboard.CloseClipboard()

To set the clipboard:

win32clipboard.OpenClipboard()
# win32clipboard.EmptyClipboard() # uncomment to clear the cb before appending to it
win32clipboard.SetClipboardText("some text")
win32clipboard.CloseClipboard()


If you want a portable approach you can use Tkinter

, that is:

from Tkinter import Tk
r = Tk()
r.withdraw()
# r.clipboard_clear() # uncomment to clear the cb before appending to it
# set clipboard
r.clipboard_append('add to clipboard')
# get clipboard
result = r.selection_get(selection = "CLIPBOARD")
r.destroy()

Both solutions turned out to work on Windows 10. The latter should work on Mac, Linux and Windows.

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There is also a pyperclip library . I use this in several tools and does a lot of simple work.



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Here's one lib

**pip install clipboard**


import clipboard
clipboard.copy("abc")  # now the clipboard content will be string "abc"
text = clipboard.paste()  # text will have the content of clipboard
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