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+#!/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))
+