DOC: add to_clipboard example in io.rst

[jreback]

[nipunbatra]

Would this simple example suffice:

• Create a df from random data
• write it to clip board
• read from clipboard into another df
• show that both df's are same

I can do a PR on this. Any other use case which can be shown?

[jreback]

yes

[nipunbatra]

Did this method not exist in 0.11.0? Nevertheless, will pull and install master.

[jreback]

has existed for quite a while actually, just not advertised

[nipunbatra]

On 0.11.0 strange results for me.
Pandas object has to_clipboard, whereas DataFrame doesn't

In [12]: pd.__version__
Out[12]: '0.11.0'    

In [18]: pd.to_
pd.to_clipboard  pd.to_datetime

In [14]: df
Out[14]: 

          0         1         2
0 -0.091543  0.263893 -0.833832
1 -1.046011 -0.542817 -2.112595
2 -1.071786  0.913624 -1.692184
3  0.311833  0.810733 -1.115800
4 -0.626098  0.556968 -0.442151

In [18]: df.to_clipboard()
AttributeError: 'DataFrame' object has no attribute 'to_clipboard'

[jreback]

that may have been added for consistency...don't know when ..its there now

[nipunbatra]

From the io docs page:

The Pandas I/O api is a set of top level reader functions accessed like pd.read_csv() that generally return a pandas object.

Shouldn't it be more clearly told to be DataFrame instead of pandas object?

[jreback]

nope
some functions can return other types of objects

[cpcloud]

examples: read_html returns a list...you could read a Panel from an HDFStore...

[nipunbatra]

Right. Thanks for clarifiying

On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 6:47 AM, Phillip Cloud notifications@github.comwrote:

examples: read_html returns a list...you could read a Panel from an
HDFStore...

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[nipunbatra]

Doc build sort of hangs at 97% on IO.
I guess slow internet is the issue. Can't build the docs currently!

[jreback]

just wait a bit it's doing a lot of hmm parsing (this is a bug getting fixed soon)

[cpcloud]

@jreback i'm assuming ur talking about the html stuff....i submitted a pr.. can u take a glance at it? thanks. will merge if u think it's ok

[jreback]

yep
will try your fix tomortow