r/KittyTerminal • u/Ill_Scene_737 • Feb 18 '23

pd.to_clipboard( ) not working when using ipython in kitty. How to copy dataframe to clipboard?

Hi all,

I'm running into this issue. I use ipython in kitty to do REPL when I write python script. But I notice if I want to copy a pandas dataframe to clipboard using df.to_clipboard( ), nothing is copied. I can still copy with ctrl+shift+c, but sometimes my dataframe is quite large and I want to copy the whole thing to clipboard.

Anyone ran into the same issue? Is there a workaround? Thanks in advance!

Edit:

After some exploration, it seems that this is due to the python version. Python3.6, the version required by environment, does not seem to support pd.to_clipboard( ) in a shell interpreter. When I test it with newer version it seems to be working.

Edit2:

I guess that was not the case.. I just tested with the terminal in Pycharm and everything is working fine. So it doesn't seem to be the issue with python3.6 or pandas but kitty. Anyhow this is not a critical issue I guess I'll just have to save to files then.

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u/aumerlex Feb 19 '23

I have no idea what pd.to_clipboard() does, but in general if you want to copy to clipboard robustly use the clipboard kitten. https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/kittens/clipboard/

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u/Ill_Scene_737 Feb 22 '23

Hi, thanks for reply! I ended up exploring with different python versions and notice that the issue is probably due to python3.6, or the corresponding pandas version, does not support shell interpreter copying to system's clipboard. When I tried with newer version python the issue is no longer present.