Displays the contents of the Windows clipboard, including all available formats. Created to answer a friend's question about how he could paste both rich and plain text, depending on the target application.

gistfile1.py

import win32clipboard as cb

builtin_type = {
    2: "CF_BITMAP",
    8: "CF_DIB",
    17: "CF_DIBV5",
    5: "CF_DIF",
    130: "CF_DSPBITMAP",
    142: "CF_DSPENHMETAFILE",
    131: "CF_DSPMETAFILEPICT",
    129: "CF_DSPTEXT",
    14: "CF_ENHMETAFILE",
    15: "CF_HDROP",
    16: "CF_LOCALE",
    18: "CF_MAX",
    3: "CF_METAFILEPICT",
    7: "CF_OEMTEXT",
    128: "CF_OWNERDISPLAY",
    9: "CF_PALETTE",
    10: "CF_PENDATA",
    11: "CF_RIFF",
    4: "CF_SYLK",
    1: "CF_TEXT",
    6: "CF_TIFF",
    13: "CF_UNICODETEXT",
    12: "CF_WAVE",
}

cb.OpenClipboard()

print 'Number of formats: %d' % cb.CountClipboardFormats()

format_id = 0

for i in xrange(cb.CountClipboardFormats()):
    format_id = cb.EnumClipboardFormats(format_id)
    
    print '\n---- ENTRY -----'
    print format_id
    
    format_name = 'FAILED'
    try:
        format_name = cb.GetClipboardFormatName(format_id)
    except:
        if builtin_type.has_key(format_id):
            format_name = builtin_type[format_id]
    print 'Format name: %s' % format_name
    
    data = cb.GetClipboardData(format_id)
    
    try:
        data = data.decode()
    except:
        pass
    print data
    
cb.CloseClipboard()