#!/usr/bin/env python3 # Convert the contents of a file into a C string constant. # Note that the compiler will implicitly add an extra 0 byte at the end # of every string, so code using the string may need to remove that to get # the exact contents of the original file. import sys def main(infile): conv = ['\\' + ("%03o" % c) for c in range(256)] safe_chars = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz" \ "0123456789!#%&'()*+,-./:;<=>?[]^_{|}~ " for c in safe_chars: conv[ord(c)] = c for c, esc in ("\nn", "\tt", r"\\", '""'): conv[ord(c)] = '\\' + esc for line in infile: sys.stdout.write('"' + ''.join(conv[c] for c in line) + '"\n') with open(sys.argv[1], 'rb') as infile: sys.stdout.write("// Generated from %s\n\n" % sys.argv[1]) main(infile)