1 # Minimal Python Minimizer
2 # Copyright 2008, Christopher Schmidt
3 # Released under the MIT License
5 # Taken from: http://svn.crschmidt.net/personal/python/minimize.py
6 # $Id: minimize.py 6 2008-01-03 06:33:35Z crschmidt $
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28 def strip_comments_helper(data):
29 """remove all /* */ format comments and surrounding whitespace."""
30 p = re.compile(r'[\s]*/\*.*?\*/[\s]*', re.DOTALL)
33 def minimize(data, exclude=None):
34 """Central function call. This will call all other compression
35 functions. To add further compression algorithms, simply add
36 functions whose names end in _helper which take a string as input
37 and return a more compressed string as output."""
38 for key, item in globals().iteritems():
39 if key.endswith("_helper"):
41 if not exclude or not func_key in exclude:
45 if __name__ == "__main__":
47 print minimize(open(sys.argv[1]).read())