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Add copy to clipboard from IPython! | |
To install, just copy it to your profile/startup directory, typically: | |
~/.ipython/profile_default/startup/ | |
Example usage: | |
%copy hello world | |
# will store "hello world" | |
a = [1, 2, 3] | |
%copy a | |
# will store "[1, 2, 3]" | |
You can also use it with cell magic | |
In [1]: %%copy | |
...: Even multi | |
...: lines | |
...: work! | |
...: | |
If you don't have a variable named 'copy' you can rely on automagic: | |
copy hey man | |
a = [1, 2, 3] | |
copy a | |
""" | |
import subprocess | |
import sys | |
from IPython.core.magic import register_line_cell_magic | |
def _copy_to_clipboard(output): | |
output = str(globals().get(output) or output) | |
process = subprocess.Popen( | |
'pbcopy', env={'LANG': 'en_US.UTF-8'}, stdin=subprocess.PIPE) | |
process.communicate(output.encode('utf-8')) | |
print('Copied to clipboard!') | |
@register_line_cell_magic | |
def copy(line, cell=None): | |
if line and cell: | |
cell = '\n'.join((line, cell)) | |
_copy_to_clipboard(cell or line) | |
# We delete it to avoid name conflicts for automagic to work | |
del copy |
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