Customizing matplotlib image display to add copy/paste

Question

I would like to customize matplotlib image display so that i can type control-c and it will copy the image to the clipboard so then i can copy it to openoffice spreadsheet to organize all of my raw data and image results. Is there any way to do this? Thanks!

Answer 1

If you're using the wx backend, FigureCanvasWxAgg has a Copy_to_Clipboard method you can use. You could bind the CTRL+C key event to call this method. For an example, see this sample code.