https://matplotlib.svn.sf.net/svnroot/matplotlib/branches/v1_0_maint
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r8767 | mdboom | 2010-11-01 09:04:29 -0400 (Mon, 01 Nov 2010) | 2 lines
Flush the clipboard after pasting to it so that the data remains after matplotlib is closed. (Reported by Daniel Hyams on the mailing list).
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