I am just trying to work out how to pass command line arguments from a shortcut to a python script, but I’m hitting an issue when the argument I want to pass is in the clipboard.
The python script is simply
import sys
print(f"Arguments of the script : {sys.argv[1]}")
This works perfectly well.
But this gives the file location of the contents of the clipboard, rather than the clipboard itself.
Any idea how to fix this?
I put this script…
#!/usr/bin/env python3
import sys
print("Arguments of the script: ", str(sys.argv))
… in this location …
/Users/stephen/scripts/python/shortcuts.py
… and I set the executable bit…
chmod +x /Users/stephen/scripts/python/shortcuts.py
I put “some text” on the clipboard, and ran this shortcut.
I got the following result.
Hope that helps.
Yes that does, thank you very much, sharing the shortcut was also very helpful.
I didn’t know that you could insert a variable or the clipboard into the run shell script command, by right-clicking on it, so that was good to learn.
I’ve pruned it down to the bare essentials if anyone else wants to pass the contents of the clipboard to a python script.
https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/91d6d3b46d3d4990bfbb1700356243a3
The key change was making the python script executable, but I’m not quite sure why! However it does now work which is great, thanks again for your help.
