Remove those pesky cover sheets from a PDF résumé

remove-coversheet.py

from PyPDF2 import PdfFileWriter, PdfFileReader
import sys

pages_to_remove = [0]
if len(sys.argv) < 3:
    raise ValueError("A source and destination file need to be supplied")
infile_name = sys.argv[1]
outfile_name = sys.argv[2]
infile = PdfFileReader(infile_name)
output = PdfFileWriter()

for i in range(infile.getNumPages()):
    page_data = infile.getPage(i)
    if i not in pages_to_remove:
        output.addPage(page_data)

with open(outfile_name, 'wb') as f:
    output.write(f)