Getting the XP clipboard in tkinter

[Matthias Huening]

"Edward K. Ream" <edream at tds.net> wrote in 
news:3D1F1A81.95602DE0 at tds.net:

>  The
> following two statements also take exceptions:
> 
> s = app().root.selection_get("clipboard")
> s = app().root.selection_get(".")
> 

Did you try this:
root.selection_get(selection="CLIPBOARD")

Worked for me...

Matthias