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Write a python string to the clipboard via pbcopy (OS X)
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write_to_clipboard.py
def write_to_clipboard(output):
import subprocess
process = subprocess.Popen('pbcopy', env={'LANG': 'en_US.UTF-8'}, stdin=subprocess.PIPE)
process.communicate(output.encode())
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adi928 commented Oct 21, 2020 •
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For dictionary objects,
test_dict = {"a": 1, "b":2}; write_to_clipboard(json.dumps(test_dict).encode('utf-8')

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For dictionary objects,
test_dict = {"a": 1, "b":2}; write_to_clipboard(json.dumps(test_dict).encode('utf-8')

'bytes' object has no attribute 'encode'

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