Copy file content to clipboard on Windows

Question

Hello, I am making a software for a forum, where members consult the patterns of posts by the software, I am storing these patterns in files and asking Python to read these files and display them, so the user copies the pattern.

Now I want to ask Python to copy the contents of the default file to the Clipboard (which is copy and paste). So not needing the user to select the text and copy, I want the software to do it alone, but how do I do it? I searched a lot and did not find.

I’ll leave a print the output data I want to copy to (copy Windows Paste). Ignore the other markings.

data output http://www.imgfans.com.br/i777/SirGates/erro.png

Answer 1

For Windows you can use the module win32clipboard, if you prefer an alternative cross-Platform, the module pyperclip.

Example of module usage win32clipboard (untested):

import win32clipboard

win32clipboard.OpenClipboard()

with open('arquivo', 'r') as f:
   conteudo = f.readlines()
   win32clipboard.SetClipboardText(conteudo)
win32clipboard.CloseClipboard()

Answer 2

I used that code:

import clipboard

clipboard.paste() 
with open('teste.txt', 'r') as f:
     conteudo = f.read()     
     clipboard.copy(conteudo)

Follow that video to install the Clipboard.

In the video, you then go to DOS and enter C:/Pythonxx/Scripts and give the command pip install clipboard