Trigger an event when clipboard content changes

Question

I\'m trying to get the clipboard content using a Python script on my Mac Lion.

I\'m searching for an event or something similar, because if I use a loop, my applicat

Answer 1

Looking at pyperclip the meat of it on Macosx is :

import os
def macSetClipboard(text):
    outf = os.popen('pbcopy', 'w')
    outf.write(text)
    outf.close()

def macGetClipboard():
    outf = os.popen('pbpaste', 'r')
    content = outf.read()
    outf.close()
    return content

These work for me how do you get on?

I don't quite follow your comment on being in a loop.

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EDIT Added 'orrid polling example that shows how changeCount() bumps up on each copy to the pasteboard. It's still not what the OP wants as there seems no event or notification for modifications to the NSPasteboard.

from LaunchServices import *
from AppKit import *
import os

from threading import Timer

def poll_clipboard():
    pasteboard = NSPasteboard.generalPasteboard()
    print pasteboard.changeCount()

def main():
    while True:
        t = Timer(1, poll_clipboard)
        t.start()
        t.join()

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()