решение Tkinter на основе упомянутого в Cameron Laird's answer:
import Tkinter
root = Tkinter.Tk()
print(root.selection_get(selection="CLIPBOARD"))
Заменить "CLIPBOARD" с «PRIMARY», чтобы вместо этого выбрать PRIMARY
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Также см. this answer.
питона-Xlib раствор, основанный на PrintSelection() и python-xlib/examples/get_selection.py
from Xlib import X, display as Xdisplay
def property2str(display, prop):
if prop.property_type == display.get_atom("STRING"):
return prop.value.decode('ISO-8859-1')
elif prop.property_type == display.get_atom("UTF8_STRING"):
return prop.value.decode('UTF-8')
else:
return "".join(str(c) for c in prop.value)
def get_selection(display, window, bufname, typename):
bufid = display.get_atom(bufname)
typeid = display.get_atom(typename)
propid = display.get_atom('XSEL_DATA')
incrid = display.get_atom('INCR')
window.change_attributes(event_mask = X.PropertyChangeMask)
window.convert_selection(bufid, typeid, propid, X.CurrentTime)
while True:
ev = display.next_event()
if ev.type == X.SelectionNotify and ev.selection == bufid:
break
if ev.property == X.NONE:
return None # request failed, e.g. owner can't convert to target format type
else:
prop = window.get_property(propid, X.AnyPropertyType, 0, 2**31-1, 1)
if prop.property_type == incrid:
result = ""
while True:
while True:
ev = display.next_event()
if ev.type == X.PropertyNotify and ev.atom == propid and ev.state == X.PropertyNewValue:
break
prop = window.get_property(propid, X.AnyPropertyType, 0, 2**31-1, 1)
if len(prop.value) == 0:
break
result += property2str(display, prop)
return result
else:
return property2str(display, prop)
display = Xdisplay.Display()
window = display.screen().root.create_window(0,0, 1,1, 0, X.CopyFromParent)
print(get_selection(display, window, "CLIPBOARD", "UTF8_STRING") or \
get_selection(display, window, "CLIPBOARD", "STRING"))
Первая ссылка не работает. –