"""Encode valid C string literals from Python strings. If a character is not allowed in C string literals, it is either emitted as a simple escape sequence (e.g. '\\n'), or an octal escape sequence with exactly three digits ('\\oXXX'). Question marks are escaped to prevent trigraphs in the string literal from being interpreted. Note that '\\?' is an invalid escape sequence in Python. Consider the string literal "AB\\xCDEF". As one would expect, Python parses it as ['A', 'B', 0xCD, 'E', 'F']. However, the C standard specifies that all hexadecimal digits immediately following '\\x' will be interpreted as part of the escape sequence. Therefore, it is unexpectedly parsed as ['A', 'B', 0xCDEF]. Emitting ("AB\\xCD" "EF") would avoid this behaviour. However, we opt for simplicity and use octal escape sequences instead. They do not suffer from the same issue as they are defined to parse at most three octal digits. """ from __future__ import annotations import string from typing import Final CHAR_MAP: Final = [f"\\{i:03o}" for i in range(256)] # It is safe to use string.printable as it always uses the C locale. for c in string.printable: CHAR_MAP[ord(c)] = c # These assignments must come last because we prioritize simple escape # sequences over any other representation. for c in ("'", '"', "\\", "a", "b", "f", "n", "r", "t", "v"): escaped = f"\\{c}" decoded = escaped.encode("ascii").decode("unicode_escape") CHAR_MAP[ord(decoded)] = escaped # This escape sequence is invalid in Python. CHAR_MAP[ord("?")] = r"\?" def encode_bytes_as_c_string(b: bytes) -> str: """Produce contents of a C string literal for a byte string, without quotes.""" escaped = "".join([CHAR_MAP[i] for i in b]) return escaped def c_string_initializer(value: bytes) -> str: """Create initializer for a C char[]/ char * variable from a string. For example, if value if b'foo', the result would be '"foo"'. """ return '"' + encode_bytes_as_c_string(value) + '"'