pandas.read_clipboard

pandas.read_clipboard(sep='\\s+', dtype_backend=<no_default>, **kwargs)[source]

Read text from clipboard and pass to read_csv().

Parses clipboard contents similar to how CSV files are parsed using read_csv().

Parameters:

sep:str, default ‘\s+’

A string or regex delimiter. The default of '\\s+' denotes one or more whitespace characters.

dtype_backend:{‘numpy_nullable’, ‘pyarrow’}, default ‘numpy_nullable’

Back-end data type applied to the resultant DataFrame (still experimental). Behaviour is as follows:

• "numpy_nullable": returns nullable-dtype-backed DataFrame (default).

• "pyarrow": returns pyarrow-backed nullable ArrowDtype DataFrame.

Added in version 2.0.

**kwargs

See read_csv() for the full argument list.

Returns:

DataFrame

A parsed DataFrame object.

See also

DataFrame.to_clipboard

Copy object to the system clipboard.

read_csv

Read a comma-separated values (csv) file into DataFrame.

read_fwf

Read a table of fixed-width formatted lines into DataFrame.

Examples

>>> df = pd.DataFrame([[1, 2, 3], [4, 5, 6]], columns=['A', 'B', 'C'])
>>> df.to_clipboard()  
>>> pd.read_clipboard()  
     A  B  C
0    1  2  3
1    4  5  6