Patch #1063914: Add clipboard_get.

1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/lib-tk/Tkinter.py b/Lib/lib-tk/Tkinter.py
index 5bd7aa9..303c22d 100644
--- a/Lib/lib-tk/Tkinter.py
+++ b/Lib/lib-tk/Tkinter.py
@@ -483,7 +483,24 @@ class Misc:
     def bell(self, displayof=0):
         """Ring a display's bell."""
         self.tk.call(('bell',) + self._displayof(displayof))
+        
     # Clipboard handling:
+    def clipboard_get(self, **kw):
+        """Retrieve data from the clipboard on window's display.
+        
+        The window keyword defaults to the root window of the Tkinter 
+        application.
+        
+        The type keyword specifies the form in which the data is 
+        to be returned and should be an atom name such as STRING 
+        or FILE_NAME.  Type defaults to STRING. 
+        
+        This command is equivalent to:
+        
+        selection_get(CLIPBOARD)
+        """
+        return self.tk.call(('clipboard', 'get') + self._options(kw))
+        
     def clipboard_clear(self, **kw):
         """Clear the data in the Tk clipboard.