md2pdf.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
# encoding: utf-8

from os.path import splitext
from argparse import ArgumentParser
from markdown import markdown
from weasyprint import HTML


parser = ArgumentParser(description='Write a markdown file to PDF.')
parser.add_argument('filen', metavar='FILE', type=str,
                    help='Markdown filename')
args = parser.parse_args()
filen = args.filen

basen, ext = splitext(filen)
with open(filen, 'r') as md, open(basen + '.pdf', 'w') as outf:
    html = markdown(md.read())
    HTML(string=html).write_pdf(basen + '.pdf')

print '-- Converting {0} to {1}.pdf'.format(filen, basen)