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diff --git a/examples/cairo_snippets/c_to_python.py b/examples/cairo_snippets/c_to_python.py
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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+"""
+translate C <snippet>.cairo to Python <snippet>.py
+
+;       -> ''
+cairo_  -> cr.
+'(cr, ' -> (     but not snippet_normalize (cr, width, height)
+(cr)    -> ()
+/*      -> #/*
+CAIRO_  -> cairo.
+"""
+
+import sys
+
+
+if len(sys.argv) != 2 or not sys.argv[1].endswith('.cairo'):
+    raise SystemExit('usage: c_to_python.py <file>.cairo')
+
+filename_in  = sys.argv[1]
+filename_out = filename_in.replace('.cairo', '.py')
+
+file_in  = file(filename_in)
+file_out = file(filename_out, 'w')    
+
+for line in file_in:
+    line = line.replace(';', '')    # should be ';' and whitespace to EOL only -> \n
+    if not line.startswith('snippet_'):
+        line = line.replace('cairo_', 'cr.')
+        line = line.replace('(cr, ',  '(')
+        line = line.replace('(cr)',   '()')
+        line = line.replace('/*',     '#/*')
+        line = line.replace('    ',   '')
+        line = line.replace('CAIRO_', 'cairo.')
+    
+    file_out.write (line)