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+#!/usr/bin/python
+"""Generate Abseil compile compile option configs.
+
+Usage: <path_to_absl>/copts/generate_copts.py
+
+The configs are generated from copts.py.
+"""
+
+from os import path
+import sys
+from copts import COPT_VARS
+
+
+# Helper functions
+def file_header_lines():
+  return [
+      "GENERATED! DO NOT MANUALLY EDIT THIS FILE.", "",
+      "(1) Edit absl/copts/copts.py.",
+      "(2) Run `python <path_to_absl>/copts/generate_copts.py`."
+  ]
+
+
+def flatten(*lists):
+  return [item for sublist in lists for item in sublist]
+
+
+def relative_filename(filename):
+  return path.join(path.dirname(__file__), filename)
+
+
+# Style classes.  These contain all the syntactic styling needed to generate a
+# copt file for different build tools.
+class CMakeStyle(object):
+  """Style object for CMake copts file."""
+
+  def separator(self):
+    return ""
+
+  def list_introducer(self, name):
+    return "list(APPEND " + name
+
+  def list_closer(self):
+    return ")\n"
+
+  def docstring(self):
+    return "\n".join((("# " + line).strip() for line in file_header_lines()))
+
+  def filename(self):
+    return "GENERATED_AbseilCopts.cmake"
+
+
+class StarlarkStyle(object):
+  """Style object for Starlark copts file."""
+
+  def separator(self):
+    return ","
+
+  def list_introducer(self, name):
+    return name + " = ["
+
+  def list_closer(self):
+    return "]\n"
+
+  def docstring(self):
+    docstring_quotes = "\"\"\""
+    return docstring_quotes + "\n".join(
+        flatten(file_header_lines(), [docstring_quotes]))
+
+  def filename(self):
+    return "GENERATED_copts.bzl"
+
+
+def copt_list(name, arg_list, style):
+  """Copt file generation."""
+
+  make_line = lambda s: "    \"" + s + "\"" + style.separator()
+  external_str_list = [make_line(s) for s in arg_list]
+
+  return "\n".join(
+      flatten(
+          [style.list_introducer(name)],
+          external_str_list,
+          [style.list_closer()]))
+
+
+def generate_copt_file(style):
+  """Creates a generated copt file using the given style object.
+
+  Args:
+    style: either StarlarkStyle() or CMakeStyle()
+  """
+  with open(relative_filename(style.filename()), "w") as f:
+    f.write(style.docstring())
+    f.write("\n")
+    for var_name, arg_list in sorted(COPT_VARS.items()):
+      f.write("\n")
+      f.write(copt_list(var_name, arg_list, style))
+
+
+def main(argv):
+  if len(argv) > 1:
+    raise RuntimeError("generate_copts needs no command line args")
+
+  generate_copt_file(StarlarkStyle())
+  generate_copt_file(CMakeStyle())
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+  main(sys.argv)