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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def writeDefinition(self, f, name):
 """Writes the string table to a file as a C const char array. This writes out the string table as one single C char array for memory size reasons, separating the individual strings with '\0' characters. This way we can index directly into the string array and avoid the additional storage costs for the pointers to them (and potential extra relocations for those). :param f: the output stream. :param name: the name of the output array. """

        entries = self.table.items()
        entries.sort(key=lambda x: x[1])

        # Avoid null-in-string warnings with GCC and potentially
        # overlong string constants; write everything out the long way.
        def explodeToCharArray(string):
            def toCChar(s):
                if s == "'":
                    return "'\\''"
                else:
                    return "'%s'" % s
            return ", ".join(map(toCChar, string))

        f.write("const char %s[] = {\n" % name)
        for (string, offset) in entries:
            if "*/" in string:
                raise ValueError("String in string table contains unexpected sequence '*/': %s" %
                                 string)

            e = explodeToCharArray(string)
            if e:
                f.write("  /* %5d - \"%s\" */ %s, '\\0',\n"
                        % (offset, string, explodeToCharArray(string)))
            else:
                f.write("  /* %5d - \"%s\" */ '\\0',\n" % (offset, string))
        f.write("};\n\n")