# Minimal Python Minimizer # Copyright 2008, Christopher Schmidt # Released under the MIT License # # Taken from: http://svn.crschmidt.net/personal/python/minimize.py # $Id: minimize.py 6 2008-01-03 06:33:35Z crschmidt $ # # Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy # of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal # in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights # to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell # copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is # furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: # # The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in # all copies or substantial portions of the Software. # # THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR # IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, # FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE # AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER # LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, # OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN # THE SOFTWARE. import re def strip_comments_helper(data): """remove all /* */ format comments and surrounding whitespace.""" p = re.compile(r'[\s]*/\*.*?\*/[\s]*', re.DOTALL) return p.sub('',data) def minimize(data, exclude=None): """Central function call. This will call all other compression functions. To add further compression algorithms, simply add functions whose names end in _helper which take a string as input and return a more compressed string as output.""" for key, item in globals().iteritems(): if key.endswith("_helper"): func_key = key[:-7] if not exclude or not func_key in exclude: data = item(data) return data if __name__ == "__main__": import sys print minimize(open(sys.argv[1]).read())