Fix for Ubuntu builds prefixing file:// to file paths when pasting into terminal from clipboard.

clipboard.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
# Fix for Ubuntu builds prefixing file:// to file paths when pasting into terminal from clipboard. 
# By faustus (2017) 
# https://gist.github.com/firstworldproblems/74d6f826096a2c491904f7a4f8e2f951

import os
import pyperclip
import time

class ClipboardWatcher():

    def __init__(self,latency):
        self.clipboard_last = pyperclip.paste()
        self.clipboard_now = None
        self.latency = latency

    def check_clipboard(self):
        
        # assume clipboard is space delimited list of valid paths
        as_list = self.clipboard_now.split()  
        valid_path = [ i for i in as_list if os.path.exists(i) ] 
 

        if len(as_list) == len(valid_path): # assumption true
            self.clipboard_now = " ".join(valid_path) 
            return True

        return False

    def run(self):
        while True:
            time.sleep(self.latency)  
            self.clipboard_now = pyperclip.paste()
            if self.clipboard_now != self.clipboard_last:
             
                if self.check_clipboard(): 
                    pyperclip.copy(self.clipboard_now)
                    print "Matched:", self.clipboard_now
            self.clipboard_last = self.clipboard_now

clippy = ClipboardWatcher(1)  # watch every n seconds
clippy.run()