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Copy (xclip backend) hangs when called in side shell command substitution

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Hello,

OS: Debian unstable linux-amd64 Pyperclip 1.6.0 Backend in use: xclip Shell: zsh, dash

pyperclip.copy() hangs when called inside shell’s command substitution. When xclip executes, python process is gone while xclip stays up running. But it seems to be Python3-ony problem, Python2 is fine.

$ python3 --version
Python 3.6.4
$  echo "$(python3 -c 'import pyperclip; pyperclip.copy("foo")'; echo "foo")"
<hangs> ...
$ pgrep python
$ pgrep xclip
5659

Python 2.7.14+
$ echo "$(python2 -c 'import pyperclip; pyperclip.copy("foo")'; echo "foo")"
foo
$

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Created 6 years ago
Comments:5 (3 by maintainers)

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modaxcommented, Jan 26, 2018

Well, it seems that xclip is kind of broken in general when used in pipes. E.g. this one hangs as well:

echo "$(echo "foo" | xclip -selection clipboard)"

Could you make xsel preferred over xclip?

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FluorineDogcommented, Apr 13, 2019

Installing xsel solves my headache. Maybe make it an explicit dependency better?

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