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Lol, as fate would have it, too many quotes etc in the code to get it to format correctly here. I just made a gist instead,

A view that is presented as a popover. You define the button names in a dict and provide a variable or literal text. If you provide a variable, that variable can be evaluated by a function. It's pretty cool. Nothing I did, just Python being Python. The file looks a mess, don't let that put you off. Seperate the data into another file and import it. I kept it all in one file for ease of showing.

Despite my code, is still a good idea.

I have updated the code a little. Took out some of the more crazy example. Just too many combinations of quotes, it ran correctly , but screwed up the code formatting here.
I was adding buttons to the popup view iterating over a dict. Not great unless you want to play chase the button :) no control the order of buttons that way. So create a sorted list from my dict now.
I know, there is nothing challenging about this code, but exciting for me as its the first real useful code I have written so far. I am using it, and it's nice. I was trying to do something similar with textExpander. I could get it to work consistently. Besides, I prefer this method.

An easy way to test your snippets is to set _debug_mode = True. Rather than just copy to the key, it will also print to the console.

Will try and put this in a repo....operative word being try :)

# @Phuket2
# beware i am a beginner programmer, if you are
# also a beginner programmer, please look over my
# code careful. While i try to be careful, i only
# know what i know

# CodeHelper 
# what:
# is a popover view that presents buttons you have described in data below that basically copies text to the clipboard. a gloried copy routine.

# settings:
#  1. _btns_per_line, the number of btns you want displayed on a single row/line
#  2. _btn_w, _btn_h. the width and height of the buttons.
#  The popup view, will determine its frame from these vars.

#3._btns, is a dict. {btntitle:varible}
# so an entry in _btns like 'email':'me@gmail.com' will add a 
#button called 'email', when clicked will copy me@gmail.com, to the clipboard. 

#usage:
# To use this code, you should put in a .py file
# and then add the .py to 'Actions Menu' in
# pythonista.




import ui
import clipboard
import console
import datetime
import calendar
import platform

# if _debug_mode, then as well as copying to the
# clipboad, prints to the console. just for
# debugging and testing your output. 

_debug_mode = False 

# set the number of rows of btns 
_btns_per_row   = 1

# set the height and width of the buttons
_btn_h = 60
_btn_w = 120

# some simple examples button variables to output

def make_week_day_header(width = 3):
    return str(calendar.weekheader(width))

_text_weekday_header = make_week_day_header()
_text_platform = platform.platform()
_text_date_stamp = str(datetime.datetime.today())


_text_init = '''
    def __init__(self):
        pass
'''

_text_main = '''
if __name__ == '__main__':
    pass
'''

_text_class = '''
class MyClass(object):
    def __init__(self):
        pass
'''


# key = name of button, value = text, can be a
# literal, from a var defined above of result of
# a funtion that returns a string, losely
# speaking...

_btns ={'init':_text_init,
     'main':_text_main,
     'class':_text_class,
     'email': 'my_email@google.com',
     'datestamp' : _text_date_stamp,
     'platform' : _text_platform,
     'weekday head': _text_weekday_header,
     }

#////////////code starts here\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\

# change the buttons apperence here
def make_button(index, the_title):
    btn = ui.Button(name=str(index), title=the_title)
    btn.name = str(index)
    btn.background_color = 'purple'
    btn.border_width = .5
    btn.tint_color = 'white'
    btn.font = ('<system-bold>', 16)

    # a little crappy to do like this, but just a quick tool
    btn.width = _btn_w
    btn.height = _btn_h

    return  btn


def action(sender):
    clipboard.set(_btns[sender.title])
    sender.superview.close()
    console.hud_alert('Copied', duration = .4)

    # print to the console, if in debug_mode
    if _debug_mode:
        print _btns[sender.title]

def rows_to_write(num_btn, btn_per_row):
    #calc the number of btn rows to make 
    ln,p_ln = divmod( num_btn, btn_per_row )
    if p_ln: ln +=1
    return(ln)

def add_btns(view, rows):
    # make the buttons and set the frames, and action

    #create a sorted list, so buttons appear in a predictable order. 
    ls = sorted((list(_btns)))

    for i, item in enumerate(ls):
        btn = make_button(i, item)
        btn.action = action
        w,h = btn.width , btn.height
        btn.frame = (i % _btns_per_row * w, i / _btns_per_row * h, w, h)
        view.add_subview(btn)


if __name__ == '__main__':
    v = ui.View()
    v.name = 'Code Helper'
    rows =rows_to_write(len(_btns),_btns_per_row )
    v.frame = (0,0,_btn_w * _btns_per_row ,_btn_h * rows)
    add_btns(v, rows)

    v.present('popover')