Merge lp:~blackfrog/pastebinit/clipboard into lp:pastebinit

[BlackFrog]

This branch added a feature that will copy the url of the paste to the system clipboard. The feature has beed tested on Mac OS X system. I have included code for a Linux & Windows system. But I cannot test/debug those system.

[Stéphane Graber (stgraber)]

Not merging it for this release, I'd need to have testers on the various supported platform and would like this feature to be optional.

I for one don't like apps messing with my clipboard and I don't think showing an error message on most system is the way to go.

review: Needs Fixing

Unmerged revisions

115. By BlackFrog on 2011-02-26

Added code to copy the url to the system clipboard

=== modified file 'pastebinit'
--- pastebinit	2011-01-30 15:20:00 +0000
+++ pastebinit	2011-02-26 05:46:14 +0000
@@ -160,6 +160,52 @@
     def getFirstNodeText(nodes, title):
         return getText(getFirstNode(nodes, title).childNodes)
 
+    def copyToClipboard(url):
+        try:
+            import platform, subprocess
+            if  platform.system() == 'Darwin':
+                # echo `url` | pbcopy
+                subprocess.Popen(['pbcopy'], stdin=subprocess.PIPE).communicate(url)
+            
+            elif platform.system() == "Windows":
+                # I don't have windows to test the following code
+                # I found at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3827511/copying-and-pasting-from-to-clipboard-with-python-win32
+                from win32clipboard import win32clipboard
+                import win32gui, win32con
+                OpenClipboard()
+                EmptyClipboard()
+                SetClipboard(win32con.CF_TEXT, url) #set clipboard data
+                # if the above code doesn't work at all
+                # try this method: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-win32/2005-April/003186.html
+            
+            elif platform.system() == "Linux":
+                # TODO: need to make sure xclip is install before using
+                # because I don't know how to test if xclip is available on the system
+                # I am going to wrap Popen call in try block
+                try:
+                    subprocess.Popen(['xclip'], stdin=subprocess.PIPE).communicate(url)
+                    copySuccess = True
+                except:
+                    copySuccess = False
+                # Check if xclip was success, if not try gtk
+                if copySuccess == False:
+                    # Found this code for using gtk on Ubuntu
+                    # http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1295070
+                    try:
+                        import pygtk
+                        pygtk.require('2.0')
+                        import gtk
+                        clipboard = gtk.clipboard_get()
+                        clipboard.set_text("%s" % (url))
+                        clipboard.store()
+                    except ImportError, e:
+                        pass # module doesn't exist
+        except: #catch *all* exceptions
+            # for debugging un-comment the lines below to see what the exception errors
+            # e = sys.exc_info()[1]
+            # print e
+            print "Couldn't copy URL to clipboard, you will have to copy manually."
+
     # Display usage instructions
     def Usage():
         print "pastebinit v" + version
@@ -331,14 +377,20 @@
     page = url_opener.open(website, params) #Send the informations and be redirected to the final page
 
     try:
+        pasteURL = "" # the url of where we can file the paste
         if reLink: #Check if we have to apply a regexp
             website = website.replace(tmp_page, "")
             if reLink == '(.*)':
-                print page.read().strip()
+                pasteURL = page.read().strip()
             else:
-                print website + re.split(reLink, page.read())[1] #Print the result of the Regexp
+                pasteURL = website + re.split(reLink, page.read())[1] #Print the result of the Regexp
         else:
-            print page.url #Get the final page and show the ur
+            pasteURL = page.url #Get the final page and show the url
+        
+        # copy the url to the clipboard
+        copyToClipboard(pasteURL)
+        print pasteURL # output paste url to stdout
+        
     except KeyboardInterrupt:
         sys.exit(_("KeyboardInterrupt caught."))
     except: