Simple and quite handy snippets for macOS pasteboard manipulations from python

pbpaste_example.py

import subprocess
import os

def cb_paste(use_bytes=False):
    """
    Returns the data from macOS pastboard
    """
    p = subprocess.Popen(['pbpaste'],
                      stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
                      stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
    out, err = p.communicate()
    
    if err:
        raise(Exception(err))
    
    if not use_bytes:
        return out.decode('utf-8')
    return out


def cb_copy(value):
    """
    Writes data to macOS pastboard
    """
    res = os.system(u'printf "%s" | pbcopy' % value.replace('"', '\\"').replace('%', '%%'))
    if res != 0:
        raise(Exception("Exit code: %d" % res))