DOC updated to reflect using pyperclip for clipboard

Author: hayd

LICENSES/OTHER

@@ -48,3 +48,33 @@ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 limitations under the License.
+
+Pyperclip v1.3 license
+----------------------
+
+Copyright (c) 2010, Albert Sweigart
+All rights reserved.
+
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+
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RELEASE.rst

@@ -73,6 +73,8 @@ pandas 0.11.1
   - ``melt`` now accepts the optional parameters ``var_name`` and ``value_name``
     to specify custom column names of the returned DataFrame (GH3649_),
     thanks @hoechenberger
+  - clipboard functions use pyperclip (no dependencies on Windows, alternative
+    dependencies offered for Linux) (GH3837_).
   - Plotting functions now raise a ``TypeError`` before trying to plot anything
     if the associated objects have have a dtype of ``object`` (GH1818_,
     GH3572_). This happens before any drawing takes place which elimnates any

pandas/core/generic.py

@@ -492,6 +492,16 @@ def to_hdf(self, path_or_buf, key, **kwargs):
         return pytables.to_hdf(path_or_buf, key, self, **kwargs)
 
     def to_clipboard(self):
+        """
+        Attempt to write text representation of object to the system clipboard
+
+        Notes
+        -----
+        Requirements for your platform
+          - Linux: xclip, or xsel (with gtk or PyQt4 modules)
+          - Windows:
+          - OS X:
+        """
         from pandas.io import clipboard
         clipboard.to_clipboard(self)
 

pandas/io/clipboard.py

@@ -23,8 +23,8 @@ def to_clipboard(obj):  # pragma: no cover
     Notes
     -----
     Requirements for your platform
-      - Linux: xsel command line tool
-      - Windows: Python win32 extensions
+      - Linux: xclip, or xsel (with gtk or PyQt4 modules)
+      - Windows:
       - OS X:
     """
     from pandas.util.clipboard import clipboard_set