Option to strip in-page links?

[brandjon]

My use case is a GFM-formatted README.md that I want to display on PyPI correctly. PyPI refuses to render it because I have project-relative links, e.g.

[point.py](examples/point.py)

According to various StackOverflow threads and my own experiments, this is not allowed.

I wonder whether it would be within the scope of this project to strip these links, perhaps replacing them with the plain url or a constant placeholder. Apparently this is possible in pandoc by transforming the parsed AST, and the step can be done in Python code using pandocfilters.

Counterpoints against implementing this feature include:

• (I presume) there are other GFM constructs that can't be easily represented in rst. In other words, we still can't save everyone.
• PyPI may at some point become less anal about its input documents, making the effort obsolete.

[brandjon]

Here's a gist for stripping links using pypandoc/pandocfilters. I don't know the setuptools magic needed to integrate it and make it optional.