#!/usr/bin/env python from __future__ import print_function from argparse import ArgumentParser # sudo pip install markdown import markdown import zipfile usage="transform README.md into index.html and zip into index.zip" parser = ArgumentParser(usage=usage) args = parser.parse_args() input="README.md" output="index.html" zipped="index.zip" with open(output,"w") as o: with open(input) as i: html = markdown.markdown (i.read()) o.write(html) print ("(Over)written {}".format(output)) with zipfile.ZipFile(zipped,'w') as z: z.write(output) print ("(Over)written {}".format(zipped))