Using clipboard from Python

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This came up, maybe it is usefull to somebody. Later I plan to do a managing context interface to withstatement for this.

# Based on http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/724:
import win32clipboard as w 
import win32con
from time import sleep

def get_text(): 
    w.OpenClipboard() 
    d = w.GetClipboardData(win32con.CF_TEXT) 
    w.CloseClipboard() 
    return d 

def set_text(to_put, the_type=w.CF_TEXT): 
    w.OpenClipboard()
    w.EmptyClipboard()
    w.SetClipboardData(the_type,to_put) 
    w.CloseClipboard()

def clipboard_wait():
    set_text('')
    # wait text to enter clipboard
    while not (get_text()):
        sleep(0.1)

    return get_text()

print(clipboard_wait())
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OS independent version

But the referenced source from Activestate had response, that referes to StackOverflow question that has piece of code with tkinter, which is mayby better, even sometimes I get this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "I:\test\clip_tk.py", line 7, in <module>
    while not r.selection_get(selection = "CLIPBOARD"):
  File "I:\python27\lib\lib-tk\Tkinter.py", line 626, in selection_get
    return self.tk.call(('selection', 'get') + self._options(kw))
_tkinter.TclError: CLIPBOARD selection doesn't exist or form "STRING" not defined

The code:

#based on http://stackoverflow.com/questions/579687/how-do-i-copy-a-string-to-the-clipboard-on-windows-using-python
from Tkinter import Tk
from time import sleep
r = Tk()
r.withdraw()

while not r.selection_get(selection = "CLIPBOARD"):
    sleep(0.1)

result = r.selection_get(selection = "CLIPBOARD")
r.clipboard_clear()
#r.clipboard_append('This goes to clipboard')
r.destroy()

print(result)
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