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#!/usr/bin/env python
from pandoc import toJSONFilter
import re

"""
Pandoc filter that causes everything between
'<!-- BEGIN COMMENT -->' and '<!-- END COMMENT -->'
to be ignored.  The comment lines must appear on
lines by themselves, with blank lines surrounding
them.
"""

incomment = False

def comment(k,v,fmt):
  global incomment
  if k == 'RawBlock':
    fmt, s = v
    if fmt == "html":
      if re.search("<!-- BEGIN COMMENT -->", s):
        incomment = True
        return []
      elif re.search("<!-- END COMMENT -->", s):
        incomment = False
        return []
  if incomment:
    return []  # suppress anything in a comment

if __name__ == "__main__":
  toJSONFilter(comment)