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Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2013 14:19:51 +0100
From: Bruno Dupuis <lisael@lisael.org>
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Subject: Re: How to get the selected text of the webpage in chrome through python ?
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On Mon, Jan 07, 2013 at 08:20:28PM -0800, iMath wrote:
> How to get the selected text of the webpage in chrome through python ?

What you need is a way to get selected text from wherever it comes. The
way to do this depends on your graphical environment. If you use X, i'd make a
a quick and dirty call to xclip -o, although there must be a pure python
implementation which in turn depends on the python framework you play
with (gtk/qt/wx/tk/...).

Short answer is : it depends on your system, and it may be easier and more
portable if you use a graphical toolkit.

cheers.

-- 
Bruno Dupuis