Python script to parse a file of text into javascript multiline string format to allow easy inlining in JS code. E.g. when you want to inline a block of JSON in JS code to keep things local

javascript_multiline_string_convertor.py

from optparse import OptionParser

def main():
    parser = OptionParser(usage="usage: %prog [options] filename",
                          version="%prog 1.0")
    
    parser.add_option("-f", "--file",
                      action="store",
                      dest="filename",
                      help="file to parse",)
    (options, args) = parser.parse_args()

    if len(args) != 1:
        parser.error("wrong number of arguments")

    f = open(args[0],'r')

    string = ""

    while 1:
      line = f.readline()
      if not line:break
      string += line

    f.close()

    print string

    print ""
    print "---------"

    string = string.replace("\"", "\\\"")
    string = string.replace("\n", "\\\n")
    string = "\"" + string + "\""


    print string


if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()