(Feb-08-2020, 11:51 AM)jim2007 Wrote: Your ability to do something like this would be dependent on how good your knowledge of Windows system programming is.

Basically when you copy a file to the clipboard in Explorer, it puts the necessary information there in a certain format:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/shell/clipboard#cfstr_filedescriptor

Once you have mastered the details of that format, the next step would be to figure out how to access the clipboard data in Python and decode it.

import win32clipboard as cb

cb.OpenClipboard()

if cb.IsClipboardFormatAvailable(cb.CH_HDROP):
  clipboard_file_path = cb.GetClipboardData(cb.CF_HDROP)
  print(clipboard_file_path)

cb.CloseClipboard()

from pathlib import Path
from tkinter import Tk, TclError
 
 
def get_clipboard_as_path():
    root = Tk()
    root.withdraw()
    try:
        content = root.selection_get(selection="CLIPBOARD")
    except TclError:
        return None
    finally:
        root.destroy()
 
    file = Path(content)
   
    try:
        if file.exists():
            return file
    except OSError:
        pass
   
    return None
 
 
# get the path
my_path = get_clipboard_as_path()
# my_path could be None
if my_path:
    print(f'The path is {my_path}')
    # if my_path is a directory, find all python files
    if my_path.is_dir():
        print('The path is a directory')
        for file in my_path.glob('*.py'):
            print(file)
    else:
        print('The path is a file')
        with my_path.open() as fd:
            header = fd.readline()
            print('First line:')
            print(header)
else:
    print('It was not a Path, maybe a image or something else')

(Feb-08-2020, 01:03 PM)DeaD_EyE Wrote: You can copy text from clipboard with Tkinter or Pyperclip.
Tkinter is shipped together with Python.

What you could not do, is getting raw bytes from a copied image to clipboard.
Tkinter doesn't seem to support it.

If you copy a File to your Clipbaord, you'll get a String back.
This code should work and return a Path object, if the Path was valid.
Otherwise it return None.

from pathlib import Path
from tkinter import Tk, TclError
 
 
def get_clipboard_as_path():
    root = Tk()
    root.withdraw()
    try:
        content = root.selection_get(selection="CLIPBOARD")
    except TclError:
        return None
    finally:
        root.destroy()
 
    file = Path(content)
   
    try:
        if file.exists():
            return file
    except OSError:
        pass
   
    return None
 
 
# get the path
my_path = get_clipboard_as_path()
# my_path could be None
if my_path:
    print(f'The path is {my_path}')
    # if my_path is a directory, find all python files
    if my_path.is_dir():
        print('The path is a directory')
        for file in my_path.glob('*.py'):
            print(file)
    else:
        print('The path is a file')
        with my_path.open() as fd:
            header = fd.readline()
            print('First line:')
            print(header)
else:
    print('It was not a Path, maybe a image or something else')

If win32clipboard has a better support for clipboard, you should use this.
Tkinter is very limited.

(Feb-08-2020, 03:56 PM)daverave1212 Wrote: I can't believe I couldn't find this stuff on the internet more easily.

handle_nonzero_success(windll.user32.OpenClipboard(owner))


def get_image():
    with context():
        return GetClipboardData(clipboard.CF_DIB)