Lightweight Python command-line interface to the GTK clipboard.
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Python 2.6 or (hopefully) 2.7.
I've only tested this thing with Python 2.6. It might work with earlier versions too, though I didn't think about that when writing it. I have not yet consciously accepted the existence of Python 3.
It's pretty dead simple so the chances that it will work with other versions are pretty good.
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argparse: Included with Python 2.7; otherwise installable via$ easy_install argparse -
pygtk: Generally installable via system package managers: for instance, debian-likes have the packagepython-gtk2.Otherwise this will do:
$ easy_install pygtk
clipcli [-h] [-d] [-f FILE] [-l] [TARGET]
positional arguments:
TARGET display the contents of this target
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-d, --debug enable debug tracing
-f FILE, --file FILE the file to which output will be directed
-l, --list list available targets
These examples were created after copying from within the Chrome browser the words "The argparse module" that appear at the beginning of the argparse documentation.
The bash-python crapwrap function is used just to make this page presentable.
Any suggestions of ways to provide more intelligent wrapping of tidied html are quite welcome.
$ clipcli -l
TIMESTAMP
TARGETS
MULTIPLE
COMPOUND_TEXT
STRING
TEXT
UTF8_STRING
text/html
text/plain
$ clipcli text/plain
The argparse module
$ function crapwrap { python -c '
from fileinput import input
from itertools import chain
from textwrap import TextWrapper
wrap = TextWrapper(subsequent_indent="......").wrap
lines = chain.from_iterable(wrap(l) for l in input())
from sys import stdout
stdout.writelines(l + "\n" for l in lines)
' "$@"; }
$ clipcli text/html | tidy -c -q -i 2>/dev/null | crapwrap
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta name="generator" content=
"HTML Tidy for Linux (vers 25 March 2009), see www.w3.org">
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content=
"text/html; charset=us-ascii">
<title></title>
<style type="text/css">
span.c2 {-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-
......vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none;
......-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
......border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:
......'Liberation Serif'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-
......variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal;
......line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent:
......0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-
......spacing: 0px}
tt.c1 {background-color: transparent; padding-top: 0px; padding-
......right: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 1px; font-size:
......0.95em; font-weight: bold;}
</style>
</head>
<body>
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</body>
</html>