Converts a Markdown file to HTML.

md_to_html.py

# Author: Dennis Rongo
# Date: 03.12.2013
# Description: Thie script converts a Markdown (*.md) file to HTML within the same directory.
# This requires Pandoc (http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/) to do the conversion.

import sys
import getopt
import subprocess
  
def process(arg):
	file = arg;
	print 'Converting markdown to HTML'
	subprocess.call("pandoc -o {file}.html {file}.md".format(file=file))

# The argument takes in the name of the file without the extension.	
def main():
    try:
        opts, args = getopt.getopt(sys.argv[1:], "h", ["help"])
    except getopt.error, msg:
        print msg
        print "for help use --help"
        sys.exit(2)
    # process options
    for o, a in opts:
        if o in ("-h", "--help"):
            print __doc__
            sys.exit(0)
    # process arguments
    for arg in args:
        process(arg)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()