Python script to copy text to clipboard [duplicate]

Question

See Pyperclip. Example (taken from Pyperclip site):

import pyperclip
pyperclip.copy('The text to be copied to the clipboard.')
spam = pyperclip.paste()

Also, see Xerox. But it appears to have more dependencies.

On macOS, use subprocess.run to pipe your text to pbcopy:

import subprocess 
data = "hello world"
subprocess.run("pbcopy", universal_newlines=True, input=data)

It will copy "hello world" to the clipboard.

To use native Python directories, use:

import subprocess

def copy2clip(txt):
    cmd='echo '+txt.strip()+'|clip'
    return subprocess.check_call(cmd, shell=True)

on Mac, instead:

import subprocess

def copy2clip(txt):
    cmd='echo '+txt.strip()+'|pbcopy'
    return subprocess.check_call(cmd, shell=True)

Then use:

copy2clip('This is on my clipboard!')

to call the function.

PyQt5:

from PyQt5.QtWidgets import QApplication
import sys

def main():
    app = QApplication(sys.argv)
    cb = QApplication.clipboard()
    cb.clear(mode=cb.Clipboard )
    cb.setText("Copy to ClipBoard", mode=cb.Clipboard)
    # Text is now already in the clipboard, no need for further actions.
    sys.exit()

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()