# -*- coding: utf-8 -*- from AppKit import NSPasteboard, NSStringPboardType pb = NSPasteboard.generalPasteboard() pbstring = pb.stringForType_(NSStringPboardType) body = '' for i in pbstring.split('\n'): content = i.strip()[0:] cs = content.split(u':') content = '"'+ cs[0] + '--' + u':'.join(cs[1:]) + '",\n' body += content print body.strip(',\n')