""" io on the clipboard """ from io import StringIO import warnings from pandas.core.dtypes.generic import ABCDataFrame from pandas import get_option, option_context def read_clipboard(sep=r"\s+", **kwargs): # pragma: no cover r""" Read text from clipboard and pass to read_csv. Parameters ---------- sep : str, default '\s+' A string or regex delimiter. The default of '\s+' denotes one or more whitespace characters. **kwargs See read_csv for the full argument list. Returns ------- DataFrame A parsed DataFrame object. """ encoding = kwargs.pop("encoding", "utf-8") # only utf-8 is valid for passed value because that's what clipboard # supports if encoding is not None and encoding.lower().replace("-", "") != "utf8": raise NotImplementedError("reading from clipboard only supports utf-8 encoding") from pandas.io.clipboard import clipboard_get from pandas.io.parsers import read_csv text = clipboard_get() # Try to decode (if needed, as "text" might already be a string here). try: text = text.decode(kwargs.get("encoding") or get_option("display.encoding")) except AttributeError: pass # Excel copies into clipboard with \t separation # inspect no more then the 10 first lines, if they # all contain an equal number (>0) of tabs, infer # that this came from excel and set 'sep' accordingly lines = text[:10000].split("\n")[:-1][:10] # Need to remove leading white space, since read_csv # accepts: # a b # 0 1 2 # 1 3 4 counts = {x.lstrip().count("\t") for x in lines} if len(lines) > 1 and len(counts) == 1 and counts.pop() != 0: sep = "\t" # Edge case where sep is specified to be None, return to default if sep is None and kwargs.get("delim_whitespace") is None: sep = r"\s+" # Regex separator currently only works with python engine. # Default to python if separator is multi-character (regex) if len(sep) > 1 and kwargs.get("engine") is None: kwargs["engine"] = "python" elif len(sep) > 1 and kwargs.get("engine") == "c": warnings.warn( "read_clipboard with regex separator does not work " "properly with c engine" ) return read_csv(StringIO(text), sep=sep, **kwargs) def to_clipboard(obj, excel=True, sep=None, **kwargs): # pragma: no cover """ Attempt to write text representation of object to the system clipboard The clipboard can be then pasted into Excel for example. Parameters ---------- obj : the object to write to the clipboard excel : boolean, defaults to True if True, use the provided separator, writing in a csv format for allowing easy pasting into excel. if False, write a string representation of the object to the clipboard sep : optional, defaults to tab other keywords are passed to to_csv Notes ----- Requirements for your platform - Linux: xclip, or xsel (with PyQt4 modules) - Windows: - OS X: """ encoding = kwargs.pop("encoding", "utf-8") # testing if an invalid encoding is passed to clipboard if encoding is not None and encoding.lower().replace("-", "") != "utf8": raise ValueError("clipboard only supports utf-8 encoding") from pandas.io.clipboard import clipboard_set if excel is None: excel = True if excel: try: if sep is None: sep = "\t" buf = StringIO() # clipboard_set (pyperclip) expects unicode obj.to_csv(buf, sep=sep, encoding="utf-8", **kwargs) text = buf.getvalue() clipboard_set(text) return except TypeError: warnings.warn( "to_clipboard in excel mode requires a single character separator." ) elif sep is not None: warnings.warn("to_clipboard with excel=False ignores the sep argument") if isinstance(obj, ABCDataFrame): # str(df) has various unhelpful defaults, like truncation with option_context("display.max_colwidth", None): objstr = obj.to_string(**kwargs) else: objstr = str(obj) clipboard_set(objstr)