to_clipboard() required xsel to be installed in Linux

[nipunbatra]

Must be mentioned somewhere, or atleast the message should be more helpful. I saw the Popen failing and installed xsel and it worked.
The last error line was

OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory

[jreback]

it's in the doc string

that's one reason we need in docs
(to put a warning up)

[nipunbatra]

Sure. Thats for Linux, anything else needed for other OS?
Can the error message be made more useful for the user, maybe like,
Missing Dependency: Install ...

[jreback]

sure....error message could def be better

if you want to attempt on windows

I think you can grab the clipboard via py32win.....

if you want to investigate would be great

[hayd]

Fixing the exception message could be as simple as this: hayd@8d0a57e ?

(if I could spell platform / write one sentence.)

[nipunbatra]

Don't use Windows, so can't try this!

On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 11:31 PM, jreback notifications@github.com wrote:

sure....error message could def be better

if you want to attempt on windows

I think you can grab the clipboard via py32win.....

if you want to investigate would be great

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[jreback]

http://coffeeghost.net/src/pyperclip.py

this looks like it handles all platforms
I think license compatible too
and is pretty short

[hayd]

@jreback looks like it's an easy drop in replacement to util/clipboard.py.

pr on the way, not tested on windows or linux (with various things installed).

[jreback]

@nipunreddevil closing this in favor of the new pyperclip & your new docs....