gio/data-to-c.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

import sys

if len(sys.argv) < 4:
    print('Usage: {0} <filename> <variable> <output>')

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)