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+# Copyright (C) 2018 and later: Unicode, Inc. and others.
+# License & terms of use: http://www.unicode.org/copyright.html
+
+import io
+
+class CommentStripper(object):
+ """Removes lines starting with "//" from a file stream."""
+
+ def __init__(self, f):
+ self.f = f
+ self.state = 0
+
+ def read(self, size=-1):
+ bytes = self.f.read(size)
+ # TODO: Do we need to read more bytes if comments were stripped
+ # in order to obey the size request?
+ return "".join(self._strip_comments(bytes))
+
+ def _strip_comments(self, bytes):
+ for byte in bytes:
+ if self.state == 0:
+ # state 0: start of a line
+ if byte == "/":
+ self.state = 1
+ elif byte == "\n":
+ self.state = 0
+ yield byte
+ else:
+ self.state = 2
+ yield byte
+ elif self.state == 1:
+ # state 1: read a single '/'
+ if byte == "/":
+ self.state = 3
+ elif byte == "\n":
+ self.state = 0
+ yield "/" # the one that was skipped
+ yield "\n"
+ else:
+ self.state = 2
+ yield "/" # the one that was skipped
+ yield byte
+ elif self.state == 2:
+ # state 2: middle of a line, no comment
+ if byte == "\n":
+ self.state = 0
+ yield byte
+ elif self.state == 3:
+ # state 3: inside a comment
+ if byte == "\n":
+ self.state = 0