Convert markdown to rst and remove links along the way

md2rst_striplinks.py

from pypandoc import convert
from pandocfilters import walk
import json

def delink(key, value, format, meta):
    if key == 'Link':
        text, _ = value
        return text


with open('in.md', 'rt') as infile:
    indata = infile.read()
jsondata = convert(indata, 'json', format='markdown')
jsontree = json.loads(jsondata)

jsontree = walk(jsontree, delink, None, None)

jsondata = json.dumps(jsontree)
outdata = convert(jsondata, 'rst', format='json')
with open('out.rst', 'wt') as outfile:
    outfile.write(outdata)