pyclip win_clip module

Provides clipboard functionality for Windows via the pywin32 package

exception pyclip.win_clip.ClipboardNotTextFormatException[source]
exception pyclip.win_clip.UnparsableClipboardFormatException[source]
class pyclip.win_clip.WindowsClipboard[source]
clear()[source]

Clear the clipboard contents

Return type

None

Returns

copy(data, encoding=None)[source]

Copy given string into system clipboard.

paste(encoding=None, text=None, errors=None)[source]

Returns clipboard contents

Parameters
  • encoding (Optional[str]) – same meaning as in bytes.encode. Implies text=True

  • text (Optional[bool]) – if True, bytes object will be en

  • errors (Optional[str]) – same meaning as in bytes.encode. Implies text=True.

Return type

Union[str, bytes]

Returns

clipboard contents. Return value is bytes by default or str if any of encoding, text, or errors is provided.