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Pyperclip really opened my eyes to the power of Python. You would use pyperclip for the get/put from/to clipboard. You could use this for example to (semi)auto-create posts to social media. You could for example make a script that retrieves a link from the clipboard (I mean one you copied previously), retrieve the metadata for that link scraping it, and copying an enriched string (link + metadata) back to the clipboard. The bulletPointAdder.py script will get the text from the clipboard, add a star and space to the beginning of each line, and then paste this new text to the clipboard.

#PYPERCLIP GEANY HOW TO#

The author of the tool (Al Sweigart) shows some more use cases in chapter 6 of Automate the Boring Stuff, for example how to add bullets to wiki markup: In most situations you’ll want to paste what the user has on their clipboard then manipulate that. In the above example we copied to the clipboard and then instantly pasted. The text you copy to the clipboard has every chance of being overwritten by anything else that happens to copy after your command has run. That is, it doesn’t get exclusive rights to the clipboard. Pyperclip copies and pastes just like anything else. > py('This is copied to the clipboard.')īe warned though. In a split second you could insert a ‘*’ in front of every line in a list! This opened my mind to a whole new way of thinking. The exercise in Automate the Boring Stuff had you paste() text from the clipboard into the program (ie, read in), manipulate said text, then copy() it back to the clipboard. It was exactly what I was looking for at the time! I wanted to automate the pasting of lists I had copied to the clipboard for a small tool I was writing. It was a new way of inputting data without actually asking for traditional “type this and hit enter” input. I was still super new to Python so the idea that I could interact with the user to that level was insane to me. It’s simple but man did it blow my mind! Why so Awesome?! It does this through the use of two functions: copy() and paste()… go figure! Pyperclip is a module you can import that allows you to copy and paste to and from the clipboard on your computer. One of which was when I discovered the Pyperclip module. While I was working through Automate the Boring Stuff (review here) I experienced a few “this is AMAZING!” moments.

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