#!/usr/bin/python2
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"""Generate sample text based on a range given on the command line."""

__author__ = 'roozbeh@google.com (Roozbeh Pournader)'

import sys

def char_rep_to_code(char_rep):
    """Converts a character representation in hex to its code."""
    return int(char_rep, 16)

def main(argv):
    """Outputs a space-separated list of characters based on input ranges."""
    chars = []
    for arg in argv[1:]:
        if '-' in arg:
            hyphen_index = arg.index('-')
            code1 = char_rep_to_code(arg[:hyphen_index])
            code2 = char_rep_to_code(arg[hyphen_index+1:])
            chars += range(code1, code2+1)
        else:
            chars.append(char_rep_to_code(arg))
    chars = u' '.join([unichr(code) for code in chars])
    print chars.encode('UTF-8')

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main(sys.argv)
