I need a python script, which will get selected text in an other application with xsel, and then store it in a var.
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also take a look at this questionc00kiemon5ter– c00kiemon5ter2011-09-07 11:29:12 +00:00Commented Sep 7, 2011 at 11:29
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Once you have the text you want selected, run this:
import os
var = os.popen('xsel').read()
print var
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I'm adding an additional answer based on the fact that os.popen is now considered obsolete. The following code is from the original answer (except variable naming changed for convenience):
out = os.popen("xsel").read()
Now we rewrite it using subprocess.Popen instead of os.popen:
process = subprocess.Popen("xsel", stdout=subprocess.PIPE, universal_newlines=True)
out = process.stdout.read()
It can be simplified as follows:
process = subprocess.Popen("xsel", stdout=subprocess.PIPE, universal_newlines=True)
out, err = process.communicate()
And the best at the end:
out = subprocess.check_output("xsel", universal_newlines=True)
The universal_newlines option, while the name doesn't suggest that, turns the input and output into text strings instead of byte strings, which are the default for subprocess.Popen.
