Copying excel data into a python list in IPython using clipboard?

Question

Is there a way to perform the following workflow:

1. Select cells in an Excel spreadsheet
2. Copy them using Ctrl+C
3. Get the content the selected cells

Answer 1

If you are on Windows, you can use PyReadline, which has a smart paste feature:

• Copy and paste using the clipboard
• Smart paste for convenient use with ipython. Converting tab separated data to python list or numpy array.

See also the documentation for clipboard functions:

ipython_paste

Paste windows clipboard. If enable_ipython_paste_list_of_lists is True then try to convert tabseparated data to repr of list of lists or repr of array. If enable_ipython_paste_for_paths==True then change \\ to / and spaces to \space.