Little program to remove c-like comments given from input via standard in

remove_comments.py

#!/usr/bin/python
# Little program to remove c-like comments from input given via standard in
import fileinput
from sys import stdout

COMMENT_OPEN = False
OPEN_COMMENT = '/*'
CLOSE_COMMENT = '*/'
OPEN_COMMENT_IDX = 0
CLOSE_COMMENT_IDX = 0
for line in fileinput.input():
    for char in line:
        if COMMENT_OPEN:
            if char == CLOSE_COMMENT[0]:
                CLOSE_COMMENT_IDX = 1
            elif char == CLOSE_COMMENT[1]:
                COMMENT_OPEN = False
            continue

        if char == OPEN_COMMENT[0]:
            OPEN_COMMENT_IDX = 1
            continue
        elif char == OPEN_COMMENT[1]:
            if OPEN_COMMENT_IDX == 1:
                COMMENT_OPEN = True
                continue
            else:
                stdout.write(OPEN_COMMENT[0])

        stdout.write(char)