#!/usr/bin/env python # 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. from __future__ import unicode_literals import sys # Indexing a byte string yields int on Python 3.x, and a str on Python 2.x def pord(c): return ord(c) if type(c) == str else c def file2string(infilename, infile, outfile): outfile.write("// Generated from %s\n\n" % infilename) 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: outfile.write('"' + ''.join(conv[pord(c)] for c in line) + '"\n') if __name__ == "__main__": with open(sys.argv[1], 'rb') as infile: file2string(sys.argv[1], infile, sys.stdout)