This is the source of Pygments. It is a generic syntax highlighter written in Python that supports over 500 languages and text formats, for use in code hosting, forums, wikis or other applications that need to prettify source code.

... works as usual, use pip install Pygments to get published versions, or python setup.py install to install from a checkout.

... can be found online at https://pygments.org/ or created with Sphinx by :

make docs

By default, the documentation does not include the demo page, as it requires having Docker installed for building Pyodide. To build the documentation with the demo page, use :

WEBSITE_BUILD=1 make docs

The initial build might take some time, but subsequent ones should be instant because of Docker caching.

To view the generated documentation, serve it using Python's http.server module (this step is required for the demo to work) :

python3 -m http.server --directory doc/_build/html

... takes place on GitHub, where the Git repository, tickets and pull requests can be viewed.

Continuous testing runs on GitHub workflows:

Contribution guidelines are found in Contributing.md.

Pygments is maintained by Georg Brandl, e-mail address [email protected] and Matthäus Chajdas.

Many lexers and fixes have been contributed by Armin Ronacher, the rest of the Pocoo team and Tim Hatch.

The code is distributed under the BSD 2-clause license. Contributors making pull requests must agree that they are able and willing to put their contributions under that license.