How to rewrite .md links to .html?

[pharmercy69]

Hello, I am converting a number of markdown files that have relative inline links between each other. When converting them to HTML with makdown-it-py, how can I replace the file extensions of link targets from .md to .html?

I searched the markdown-it-py and markdown-it documentations and code but didn't find anything related, AI came only up with non-functional solutions. Many thanks.