Python comment stripper

[Dennis Reinhardt]

Does anyone have a Python source comment stripper or can anyone recommend a
parser that could be adapted for same?

Why?  ... well there is a better than 2:1 byte size reduction in both raw
and compressed .py files if comments are stripped.  Results of analyzing
dospath.py in :

                               raw Kb    compressed Kb
                             ----------    --------------------
original                    10.44               2.98
4 spaces -> 1 space    8.85               2.86
+ strip comments       4.65               1.34

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Dennis Reinhardt

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