pyclip macos_clip module

Provides clipboard for MacOS

class pyclip.macos_clip.MacOSClip(_backend=None)

Provides Clipboard functionality for MacOS.

Defers to one of two backends: _PasteboardBackend (the default) or _PBCopyPBPasteBackend.

clear()

Clear the clipboard contents

Returns

copy(data, encoding=None)

Parameters

• data (Union[str, bytes]) – data to copy to the clipboard

• encoding (Optional[str]) – this parameter is ignored on this backend

Returns

paste(encoding=None, text=None, errors=None)

Retrieve contents of the clipboard

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.

Returns

clipboard contents. Return value is bytes by default

or str if any of encoding, text, or errors is provided.