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#!/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)