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.
Tkinter is very limited.
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.
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