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copied!<p>I don't know if you're familiar with <code>sed</code>, the UNIX-based (but Windows-available) text parsing program, but I've found a sed script <a href="http://sed.sourceforge.net/grabbag/scripts/remccoms3.sed" rel="noreferrer">here</a> which will remove C/C++ comments from a file. It's very smart; for example, it will ignore '//' and '/*' if found in a string declaration, etc. From within Python, it can be used using the following code:</p> <pre><code>import subprocess from cStringIO import StringIO input = StringIO(source_code) # source_code is a string with the source code. output = StringIO() process = subprocess.Popen(['sed', '/path/to/remccoms3.sed'], input=input, output=output) return_code = process.wait() stripped_code = output.getvalue() </code></pre> <p>In this program, <code>source_code</code> is the variable holding the C/C++ source code, and eventually <code>stripped_code</code> will hold C/C++ code with the comments removed. Of course, if you have the file on disk, you could have the <code>input</code> and <code>output</code> variables be file handles pointing to those files (<code>input</code> in read-mode, <code>output</code> in write-mode). <code>remccoms3.sed</code> is the file from the above link, and it should be saved in a readable location on disk. <code>sed</code> is also available on Windows, and comes installed by default on most GNU/Linux distros and Mac OS X.</p> <p>This will probably be better than a pure Python solution; no need to reinvent the wheel.</p>

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