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+#!/usr/bin/python3
+import glob
+import subprocess
+from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
+
+pages = glob.glob("*.html")
+pages += glob.glob("relnotes/*.html")
+for filename in pages:
+    # Fix some annoyingly bad html.
+    with open(filename) as f:
+        soup = BeautifulSoup(f, 'html5lib')
+    soup.find("div", "header").extract() # Get rid of old header
+    soup.iframe.extract() # Get rid of old contents bar.
+    soup.find("div", "content").unwrap() # Strip the content div.
+
+    # Write out the better html.
+    with open(filename, 'wt') as f:
+        f.write(str(soup))
+
+    # Convert to rst with pandoc.
+    name = filename.split(".html")[0]
+    bashCmd = "pandoc " + filename + " -o " + name + ".rst"
+    subprocess.run(bashCmd.split())