Xerox: Copy + Paste for Python

Xerox is a copy + paste module for python. It's aim is simple: to be as incredibly simple as possible.

Supported platforms are currently OS X, X11 (Linux, BSD, etc.), and Windows.

If you can make it simpler, please fork.

Usage

Usage is as follows::

xerox.copy(u'some string')

And to paste::

>>> xerox.paste()
u'some string'

On Linux you can optionally also copy into the X selection clipboard for middle-click-paste capability::

xerox.copy(u'Some string', xsel=True)

And you can choose to paste from the X selection rather than the system clipboard::

xerox.paste(xsel=True)

And, that's it.

Command Line

To copy::

	$ xerox some string

or::

	$ echo some string | xerox

To paste::

	>>> xerox
	some string


Installation
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To install Xerox, simply::

	$ pip install xerox

Note: If you are installing xerox on Windows, you will also need to install the pywin32_ module.

Note: On X11 systems, Xerox requires Xclip, which can be found through your system package manager (e.g. apt-get install xclip) or at https://github.com/astrand/xclip


Legal Stuff
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MIT License.

(c\) 2016 Kenneth Reitz.

.. _pywin32: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/files/