file2h.py

# Reads in a text file, and performs the necessary escapes so that it
# can be #included as a static string like:
#    static const char string_from_textfile[] =
#    #include "build/textfile.h"
#    ;
# This script simply prints the escaped string straight to stdout

from __future__ import print_function

import sys

# Can either be set explicitly, or left blank to auto-detect
# Except auto-detect doesn't work because the file has been passed
# through Python text processing, which makes all EOL a \n
line_end = "\\r\\n"

if __name__ == "__main__":
    filename = sys.argv[1]
    for line in open(filename, "r").readlines():
        if not line_end:
            for ending in ("\r\n", "\r", "\n"):
                if line.endswith(ending):
                    line_end = ending.replace("\r", "\\r").replace("\n", "\\n")
                    break
            if not line_end:
                raise Exception("Couldn't auto-detect line-ending of %s" % filename)
        line = line.rstrip("\r\n")
        line = line.replace("\\", "\\\\")
        line = line.replace('"', '\\"')
        print('"%s%s"' % (line, line_end))