From 08cee23ec10f22da1eb54944c8e01564c16a5c33 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Todd Leonhardt <todd.leonhardt@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2017 21:30:00 -0400
Subject: Attempt at fixing some extraneous output on Linux when using Python3
 and xclip

---
 cmd2.py | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'cmd2.py')

diff --git a/cmd2.py b/cmd2.py
index 4fee16af..e638d401 100755
--- a/cmd2.py
+++ b/cmd2.py
@@ -300,7 +300,12 @@ def options(option_list, arg_desc="arg"):
 
 # Can we access the clipboard?  Should always be true on Windows and Mac, but only sometimes on Linux
 try:
-    _ = pyperclip.paste()
+    if six.PY3 and sys.platform.startswith('linux'):
+        # Avoid extraneous output to stderr from xclip when clipboard is empty at cost of overwriting clipboard contents
+        pyperclip.copy('')
+    else:
+        # Try getting the contents of the clipboard
+        _ = pyperclip.paste()
 except pyperclip.exceptions.PyperclipException:
     can_clip = False
 else:
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