#!/usr/bin/env python import sys if len(sys.argv) < 4: print('Usage: {0} ') with open(sys.argv[1], 'rb') as f: in_data = f.read().decode('utf-8', 'backslashreplace') b = [r'\x{:02x}'.format(ord(c)) for c in in_data] out_data = "const char {0}[] = \"".format(sys.argv[2]) out_data += "".join(b) + "\";" with open(sys.argv[3], 'w') as f: f.write(out_data)