Question

Whenever I try the following in my python interpreter. I am able to copy the word hello
to the command line, even after I close the interpreter

from Tkinter import Tk
r = Tk()
r.clipboard_append(" hello ")

However if I put this in a file called test.py and then try

python test.py

This will not work, I can’t append this to the system clipboard

Does any one know why not or know what difference between running it in a script and in the interpreter would cause

Answer 1

Apparently it won’t work until Tkinter is in it’s mainloop. This works on my system:

from Tkinter import *
r = Tk()
r.clipboard_append("hello")
r.mainloop()