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The document provides a step-by-step guide on creating a Python program, bulletPointAdder.py, that adds bullet points to text copied to the clipboard. It outlines the process of copying text, modifying it by adding stars to the beginning of each line, and then copying the modified text back to the clipboard. The full code and a reference to a book on practical programming are also included.

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Adding Bullets to Wiki Markup (1)

The document provides a step-by-step guide on creating a Python program, bulletPointAdder.py, that adds bullet points to text copied to the clipboard. It outlines the process of copying text, modifying it by adding stars to the beginning of each line, and then copying the modified text back to the clipboard. The full code and a reference to a book on practical programming are also included.

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ADDING BULLETS TO WIKI

MARKUP
BY
USN: 4JK23CI007 Name: Aditi Attupuram USN: 4JK23CIO11 Name: Amisha A Kotian
USN: 4JK23CI008 Name: Ajay Manjunatha Gouda USN: 4JK23CI012 Name: Ananya
USN: 4JK23CI009 Name: Akash R Chandran
Contents:
Step wise execution
• Step 1
• Step 2
• Step 3

Full code
Reference
Step wise Execution:
 Step 1: Copy and Paste from the Clipboard
You want the bulletPointAdder.py program to do the following:
1. Paste text from the clipboard
2. Do something to it
3. Copy the new text to the clipboard
That second step is a little tricky, but steps 1 and 3 are pretty straightforward:
They just involve the pyperclip.copy() and pyperclip.paste() functions.
For now, let’s just write the part of the program that covers steps 1
and 3. Enter the following, saving the program as bulletPointAdder.py:
#! python3
# bulletPointAdder.py - Adds Wikipedia bullet points to the start
# of each line of text on the clipboard.
import pyperclip
text = pyperclip.paste()
# TODO: Separate lines and add stars.
pyperclip.copy(text)
The TODO comment is a reminder that you should complete this part of
the program eventually. The next step is to actually implement that piece
of the program.
 Step 2: Separate the Lines of Text and Add the Star
The call to pyperclip.paste() returns all the text on the clipboard as one big
string. If we used the “List of Lists of Lists” example, the string stored in
text would look like this:
'Lists of animals\nLists of aquarium life\nLists of biologists by author
abbreviation\nLists of cultivars'
The \n newline characters in this string cause it to be displayed with
multiple lines when it is printed or pasted from the clipboard. There are
many “lines” in this one string value. You want to add a star to the start of
each of these lines.
You could write code that searches for each \n newline character in the
string and then adds the star just after that. But it would be easier to use the
split() method to return a list of strings, one for each line in the original
string, and then add the star to the front of each string in the list.
Make your program look like the following:
#! python3
# bulletPointAdder.py - Adds Wikipedia bullet points to the start
# of each line of text on the clipboard.
import pyperclip
text = pyperclip.paste()
# Separate lines and add stars.
lines = text.split('\n')
for i in range(len(lines)): # loop through all indexes in the "lines" list
lines[i] = '* ' + lines[i] # add star to each string in "lines" list
# Join the modified lines back into a single string
modified_text = '\n' + '\n'.join(lines)
pyperclip.copy(modified_text)
We split the text along its newlines to get a list in which each item is one
line of the text. We store the list in lines and then loop through the items in
lines. For each line, we add a star and a space to the start of the line. Now
each string in lines begins with a star.
 Step 3: Join the Modified Lines
The lines list now contains modified lines that start with stars. But
pyperclip.copy() is expecting a single string value, not a list of string values.
To make this single string value, pass lines into the join() method to get a
single string joined from the list’s strings. Make your program look like the
following:
#! python3
# bulletPointAdder.py - Adds Wikipedia bullet points to the start
# of each line of text on the clipboard.
import pyperclip
text = pyperclip.paste()
# Separate lines and add stars.
lines = text.split('\n')
for i in range(len(lines)): # loop through all indexes for "lines" list
lines[i] = '* ' + lines[i] # add star to each string in "lines" list
text = '\n'.join(lines)
pyperclip.copy(text)
When this program is run, it replaces the text on the clipboard with
text that has stars at the start of each line. Now the program is complete, and
you can try running it with text copied to the clipboard.
Even if you don’t need to automate this specific task, you might want to
automate some other kind of text manipulation, such as removing trailing
spaces from the end of lines or converting text to uppercase or lowercase.
Whatever your needs, you can use the clipboard for input and output.
Full code:

import pyperclip
text = pyperclip.paste()
# Separate lines and add stars.
lines = text.split('\n')
for i in range(len(lines)): # loop through all indexes in the "lines" list
lines[i] = '* ' + lines[i] # add star to each string in "lines" list
modified_text = '\n' + '\n'.join(lines)
pyperclip.copy(modified_text)
Reference:

 AUTOMATE THE BORING STUFF WITH PYTHON (PRACTICAL PROGRAMMING FOR TOTAL
BEGINNERS) by AL SWEIGART

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