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+# 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
+line_end = ''
+
+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))