md to html

gistfile1.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
import markdown
import sys
import codecs

if __name__ == '__main__':
  in_file = codecs.open(sys.argv[1], mode="r", encoding="utf-8")
  text = input_file.read()
  html = markdown.markdown(text)

  outname = sys.argv[1] + ".html"
  out_file = codecs.open(outname, "w", encoding="utf-8", errors="xmlcharrefreplace")
  out_file.write(html)