Question

I’m reading text in terminal with
description = raw_input()
It works if I write the text and press enter. The problem is when I paste the text from somewhere with Ctrl+Shift+V or with right click + paste. My program immediately ends, description contains only part of the text (I can see it in database).

Do you know how to do this so paste works? I’m using xfce4-terminal in Ubuntu.

thank you

Answer 1

Try this, lifted it from a google search. You have to enter 3 blank lines after your paste, but of course, if there are 3 blank lines in your paste, then it won’t work. The concept is there though, you just need to pick an end control character. Thanks for the comments catching that guys.

print "paste quote:"
emptycount = 0
lines = []

while emptycount < 2:
    t = raw_input()
    if len(t) == 0:
        emptycount +=1
    else:
        emptycount=0
        lines.append(t)
        lines.append("\n")

print " ".join(lines[:-1])