import sys from bs4 import BeautifulSoup from markdown import markdown with open(sys.argv[1]) as f_in, open(sys.argv[2],'w') as f_out: for i, line in enumerate(f_in): if i in (1,2): continue if line[:2] == "# " and line[:5] != "# In[": text = line[:2] f_out.write(line[2:])