[CLI] Add a subcommand for getting information about a keyboard (#8666)

You can now use `qmk info` to get information about keyboards and keymaps.

Co-authored-by: Erovia <Erovia@users.noreply.github.com>

1 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lib/python/qmk/comment_remover.py b/lib/python/qmk/comment_remover.py
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+"""Removes C/C++ style comments from text.
+
+Gratefully adapted from https://stackoverflow.com/a/241506
+"""
+import re
+
+comment_pattern = re.compile(r'//.*?$|/\*.*?\*/|\'(?:\\.|[^\\\'])*\'|"(?:\\.|[^\\"])*"', re.DOTALL | re.MULTILINE)
+
+
+def _comment_stripper(match):
+    """Removes C/C++ style comments from a regex match.
+    """
+    s = match.group(0)
+    return ' ' if s.startswith('/') else s
+
+
+def comment_remover(text):
+    """Remove C/C++ style comments from text.
+    """
+    return re.sub(comment_pattern, _comment_stripper, text)