GH1174 more precise kwargs in DataFrame.to_clipboard (#1195)

* type to_clipboard kwargs to match to_csv

* set defaults and fix imports

* movekwargs to generic.pyi, add tests, remove frame.pyi definition

Author: yangdanny97

pandas-stubs/core/frame.pyi

@@ -2226,12 +2226,6 @@ class DataFrame(NDFrame, OpsMixin, _GetItemHack):
     def swapaxes(self, axis1: Axis, axis2: Axis, copy: _bool = ...) -> Self: ...
     def tail(self, n: int = ...) -> Self: ...
     def take(self, indices: list, axis: Axis = ..., **kwargs: Any) -> Self: ...
-    def to_clipboard(
-        self,
-        excel: _bool = ...,
-        sep: _str | None = ...,
-        **kwargs: Any,  # TODO: make more precise https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas-stubs/issues/1174
-    ) -> None: ...
     @overload
     def to_json(
         self,

pandas-stubs/core/generic.pyi

@@ -179,7 +179,29 @@ class NDFrame(indexing.IndexingMixin):
         storage_options: StorageOptions = ...,
     ) -> None: ...
     def to_clipboard(
-        self, excel: _bool = ..., sep: _str | None = ..., **kwargs
+        self,
+        excel: _bool = ...,
+        sep: _str | None = ...,
+        *,
+        na_rep: _str = ...,
+        float_format: _str | Callable[[object], _str] | None = ...,
+        columns: list[HashableT1] | None = ...,
+        header: _bool | list[_str] = ...,
+        index: _bool = ...,
+        index_label: Literal[False] | _str | list[HashableT2] | None = ...,
+        mode: FileWriteMode = ...,
+        encoding: _str | None = ...,
+        compression: CompressionOptions = ...,
+        quoting: CSVQuoting = ...,
+        quotechar: _str = ...,
+        lineterminator: _str | None = ...,
+        chunksize: int | None = ...,
+        date_format: _str | None = ...,
+        doublequote: _bool = ...,
+        escapechar: _str | None = ...,
+        decimal: _str = ...,
+        errors: _str = ...,
+        storage_options: StorageOptions = ...,
     ) -> None: ...
     @overload
     def to_latex(

tests/test_io.py

@@ -275,6 +275,9 @@ def test_clipboard():
         ),
         DataFrame,
     )
+    # Passing kwargs for to_csv
+    DF.to_clipboard(quoting=csv.QUOTE_ALL)
+    DF.to_clipboard(sep=",", index=False)
     if TYPE_CHECKING_INVALID_USAGE:
         pd.read_clipboard(names="abcd")  # type: ignore[call-overload] # pyright: ignore[reportArgumentType]
         pd.read_clipboard(usecols="abcd")  # type: ignore[call-overload] # pyright: ignore[reportArgumentType]