1Xerox: Copy + Paste for Python 2============================== 3 4*Xerox* is a copy + paste module for python. It's aim is simple: to be as incredibly simple as possible. 5 6Supported platforms are currently OS X, X11 (Linux, BSD, etc.), and Windows. 7 8If you can make it simpler, please fork. 9 10Usage 11----- 12 13Usage is as follows: :: 14 15 xerox.copy(u'some string') 16 17And to paste: :: 18 19 >>> xerox.paste() 20 u'some string' 21 22On Linux you can optionally also copy into the X selection clipboard for 23middle-click-paste capability: :: 24 25 xerox.copy(u'Some string', xsel=True) 26 27And you can choose to paste from the X selection rather than the system 28clipboard: :: 29 30 xerox.paste(xsel=True) 31 32And, that's it. 33 34Command Line 35~~~~~~~~~~~~ 36To copy: :: 37 38 xerox some string 39 40or: :: 41 42 echo some string | xerox 43 44To paste: :: 45 46 >>> xerox 47 some string 48 49Installation 50------------ 51 52To install Xerox, simply: 53 54 $ pip install xerox 55 56Or, if you must: 57 58 $ easy_install xerox 59 60Note: If you are installing xerox on Windows, you will also need to install the pywin32_ module. 61 62Legal Stuff 63----------- 64 65MIT License. 66 67(c\) 2016 Kenneth Reitz. 68 69.. _pywin32: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/files/ 70