This is a quick little script that converts pelican metadata syntax into pandoc metadata syntax. This is simply as you just need to fence it in with 3-dashes. This adds this to all files in current dir with .md extension.

convert_pelican_to_pandoc.py

"""This is a quick little script that converts pelican metadata syntax into 
pandoc metadata syntax. This is simply as you just need to fence it in with 3-dashes.
This adds this to all files in current dir with .md extension
"""

from os import walk
 
def list_files(directory, extension):
    for (dirpath, dirnames, filenames) in walk(directory):
        return (f for f in filenames if f.endswith('.' + extension))

def add_yaml(files):
    for f in files:
        # pull file contents into a temp var
        f_read = open(directory + f, 'r')
        buff = f_read.read()
        f_read.close()
        # add a string to the beginning
        new = '---\n' + buff
        # find the first double break, which indicates end of title block
        new = new.replace('\n\n', '\n---\n\n',1)
        f_write = open(directory + f, 'w')
        f_write.write(new)
        f_write.close()
        print("Updating file: %s" % f)
        
    return


if __name__ == "__main__":
    directory = '/content/'
    files = list_files(directory, "md")
    add_yaml(files)