[U] Create script to replace readme shorthand with links

merging/reformat_readme.py

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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""
+This script turns readme shorthand pull request references (i.e. dylanaraps/neofetch#1946) into full
+GitHub pull request links.
+"""
+import re
+from pathlib import Path
+
+
+RE_SHORTHAND = re.compile(r"""[a-z0-9]+?/[a-z0-9]+?#[0-9]+""")
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    readme = Path('README.md').read_text()
+
+    for shorthand in RE_SHORTHAND.findall(readme):
+        user, pull = shorthand.split('/')
+        repo, pull = pull.split('#')
+        readme = readme.replace(shorthand, f'[{user}#{pull}](https://github.com/{user}/{repo}/pull/{pull})')
+
+    Path('README.md').write_text(readme)