You need to understand that Windows and Ubuntu are two different operating systems, hence, have different shortcut keys. While Ctrl + C and Ctrl + V work well for Windows, Ubuntu requires the pressing of Shift along with these.
In your case, this won’t work because you are pasting from Windows to a file created on Ubuntu VirtualBox, that is, a transaction between two operating systems. It should work if you open the course using the browser of Ubuntu OS and then copy and paste the code from there. Otherwise you need to write the whole thing.
Note: You can always copy some parts of code from a pre-existing python file (that you might have written for some other project) using
Ctrl + R : Read file
Ctrl + O : Write file
and make changes here and there.
Hello @itisshlok you can solve your problem by creating a shared folder between your windows and ubuntu running on virtual machine.
You can create it by following instructions on following page-
For Virtual Box
https://gist.github.com/estorgio/1d679f962e8209f8a9232f7593683265
For VMware
https://askubuntu.com/questions/29284/how-do-i-mount-shared-folders-in-ubuntu-using-vmware-tools
Now, using windows note-pad create python script files and save them to this shared folder. you can directly copy-paste the commands because now your are working on windows note-pad. After all modifications save the file in shared folder.
Now, when you want to run the python script files, open your virtual box and start ubuntu server. change your working directory to the shared folder using 'cd ’ command. Now run ‘ls’ command. Here you will find the file saved by windows note-pad and you can run it.
This will make the script file writing, editing, debugging lot much easier.
You can also use note-pad ++ software. It is an open source free software, which is compatible for writing script files in many high level languages like C, C++, Python, Java etc. and have much user friendly interface.
Hope this helps you.
You can do this by adding a shared folder as mentioned above by someone.
Or just go to the machine setting in the dashboard, click on advanced and change the ‘shared clipboard’ tab to bidirectional. Now, ctrl+c and ctrl+v will work normally.
For Virtual Box
https://gist.github.com/estorgio/1d679f962e8209f8a9232f7593683265
For VMware
https://askubuntu.com/questions/29284/how-do-i-mount-shared-folders-in-ubuntu-using-vmware-tools
Now, using windows note-pad create python script files and save them to this shared folder. you can directly copy-paste the commands because now your are working on windows note-pad. After all modifications save the file in shared folder.
Now, when you want to run the python script files, open your virtual box and start ubuntu server. change your working directory to the shared folder using 'cd ’ command. Now run ‘ls’ command. Here you will find the file saved by windows note-pad and you can run it.
This will make the script file writing, editing, debugging lot much easier.
You can also use note-pad ++ software. It is an open source free software, which is compatible for writing script files in many high level languages like C, C++, Python, Java etc. and have much user friendly interface.