Embedded 'C' problem?

[Samuel Schulenburg]

bokr at accessone.com (Bengt Richter) wrote in message news:<3b195197.147691268 at wa.news.verio.net>...
> On 2 Jun 2001 00:09:22 -0700, samschul at pacbell.net (Samuel
> Schulenburg) wrote:
> 
> >Given the following string:
> >EB70:|30 E8 8A 17  00 00 66 89  04 9F 83 C4  08 43 3B 5C   
> >0.....f......C;\
> >
> >and using the following 'C' wsprintf() function to build ucPyString
> >causes a print format error.
> >
> >wsprintf(ucPyString,"print \"\"\"%s\"\"\"",ucMsgStr);
> >PyRun_SimpleString(ucPyString);
> >
> >ERROR:
> >
> >  File "<string>", line 1
> >print """EB70:|30 E8 8A 17  00 00 66 89  04 9F 83 C4  08 43 3B 5C
> >0.....f......C;\"""
> >                                                                      
> >                   ^
> >SyntaxError: invalid token
> >
> >The problem is final "\" in the origional string is interfering with
> >the final tripple quote forming a \""" which is interprited as an
> >escape sequence.
> >
> Looks to me like you'd have a problem with """ embedded in ucMsgStr
> too. Apparently what you want is a python statement which when
> executed will put exactly the original characters of ucMsgStr to
> stdout. So the question is how to represent the string when you don't
> know what it contains. Any escape or quotes characters could
> potentially interfere. Also if you have special characters
>  OTTOMH, [no warranty, not checked!] I'd try
> something like the following to escape double quotes and backslashes:
> 
> #include <string.h>
> ...
> #define UCPYSTRINGMAX -- whatever your buffer size, min 40 for err msg
> unsigned int i = wsprintf( ucPyString,"print \"\"\"" );
> 
> for(const char *p= ucMsgStr; *p; ++p ){
>     if( i >= UCPYSTRINGMAX-4-3-1 ){ //4hex+3"'s+term
>         i = wsprintf( ucPyString,"print \"\"\"Insufficient Buffer\""
> );
>         break;
>     }
>     if( !isprint(*p) ){
>         i += wsprintf( ucPyString+i,"\\x%02x",*p ); // hex if weird
>     } else {
>         if( *p == '\\' || *p == '"' ){  // escape dquote and backslash
>             i += wsprintf( ucPyString+i,"\\%c",*p );    // escaped
>         } else {
>             i += wsprintf( ucPyString+i,"%c",*p );      // plain
>         }
>     }
> }
> i += wsprintf( ucPyString+i, "\"\"\"" );    // indent and \n up to you
> ...
> 
> wsprintf is kind of overkill, but if you need to change to wide chars
> maybe it's easier than leaner string routines.
> 
> Alternatively you could brute force escape every character in hex.
> Either way MAKE SURE YOU HAVE THE SPACE for worst case expansion if
> you don't know what's coming.
> 
> The raw string format would still leave you with an escaping problem
> somewhere, UIAM.
> >My question is. How can I generate a format specifier so I can have a
> >ucMsgStr that contains any printable characters, and does not interfer
> >with the Python print function?
> >
> It's not the print function per se, it's the interpreter
> reading the print statement source that you've generated, and
> interpreting the string literal in it to make the string constant
> that becomes the argument for print when it executes. It doesn't
> like the generated string syntax. If you put "s=" in place of "print"
> I would expect the same problem.



I would like to give a big thanks to your post. You hit the solution
right on the head. I ennded up escaping  \"  \'  \\ and that fixed the
problem.

Samuel Schulenburg