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Added documentation for to_clipboard()
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Expand Up @@ -1231,6 +1231,39 @@ And then import the data directly to a DataFrame by calling:

clipdf

.. note::

You may need to install xsel on Linux to be able to read from the clipboard.

The ``to_clipboard`` method can be used to write the contents of a DataFrame to
the clipboard. Following which you can paste the clipboard contents into other
applications (CTRL-V on many operating systems). Here we illustrate writing a
DataFrame into clipboard and reading it back.

.. ipython:: python

df=pd.DataFrame(randn(5,3))

.. ipython:: python

df

.. ipython:: python

df.to_clipboard()

.. ipython:: python

obj=pd.read_clipboard()
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you don't need to asssign here...just pd.read_clipboard() (its like ipython, will just print the results)

also...these can all be in a single ipython:: python directive

and giong to need to change the note to conform with #3848

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Do i need to send another PR? or can this be edited?


.. ipython:: python

obj

We can see that we got the same content back, which we had earlier written to the clipboard.




.. _io.excel:

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