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Hello everyone. I have python 3.10.6 and windows 8.1 so based on what I've found on the internet I'm supposed to have pip. I am going through the lessons from "Automate the Boring Stuff with Python" and I have to get Pyperclip but I just don't understand how. I would be very grateful if someone helped me please.
If all you want to do is copy content to another text editor, then try using pyautogui module. This module allows mouse/keyboard automation via python code.
Code:
import pyautogui
import time
time.sleep(5)
a = "testing"
pyautogui.typewrite(a)
The above code will start typing the word testing after 5 seconds of program execution, so you will have to open your text editor during that duration.
The best part (or the worst) about pyautogui module is that it is focus independent i.e. it works regardless of whether the current application has focus control or not.
Just a sidenote don't use pyperclip for copying/changing/accessing clipboard data, rather try win32clipboard, if you're on windows, as it allows a lot better control over the clipboard.
Although this is a rather old question the answer cost me several hours. My goal was to input a number into another program. That program however is autocompleting the input and therefore using typewrite() (write() in the current version of pyautogui) leads to unexpected behaviour.
However pyautogui helped me in the end, together with pyperclip. Here is the code I am using:
import pyperclip
import time
pyperclip.copy('hello')
time.sleep(5)
with pyautogui.hold('ctrl'):
pyautogui.press(['v'])
This solution is dirty, but it works.
>>> import pyperclip
>>> pyperclip.copy('Hello, world!')
>>> pyperclip.paste()
'Hello, world!'
sudo apt-get install xclip
Run this command on your terminal, then run the Python test.
The clipboard is part of your GUI. But you don't have a GUI. So there is no clipboard to copy and paste with. There is no clipboard for pyperclip to access, so it doesn't matter how you try to access it, you're going to fail.
You can test very easily by running this at the shell:
xclip
If it says something like Error: No display: (null), then that's your problem.
If you think you should have a GUI, because you've set things up to, e.g., tunnel X11 through ssh to an X server on your desktop machine, but you're still getting an error from xclip, then the problem is that you've set things up wrong. The simplest thing to check is:
echo $DISPLAY
Is that empty? Then your session doesn't know anything about your X11 tunnel. Getting tunneling set up properly is really an issue for a site like Super User or Unix, not Stack Overflow—and, once you get that fixed, pyperclip, and your script, should just start working.
As for what you can do about it… well, it depends on why you were trying to use pyperclip in the first place. On a headless system, there's nowhere to copy data from, and nowhere to paste it to, so it wouldn't be particularly useful.
If you're trying to, e.g., share data between two different Python scripts on the same machine, then there are simpler ways to do that than passing it through a clipboard—just use a file, a pipe, a socket, etc.—that don't even require a third-party library with complicated setup.
Hi guys,
I’m following the Automate the boring things tutorial on Udemy along with the free online text. I have installed python and am able to make simple programs but can’t use modules for some reason. Specifically in the pyperclip portion of the tutorial early on. When I put “import pyperclip” I get:
Traceback (most recent call last): File “<pyshell#0>”, line 1, in <module> Import pyperclip ModuleNotFoundError: No module named ‘pyperclip’
I am a total noob and don’t know what I’m doing wrong and tried referring to the free automate the boring stuff section of install modules. But I don’t understand what I need to do in the command window to get there. I also go into my program files and don’t find that folder directory mentioned there.