pygments: Generic syntax highlighter#

Description#

Pygments is a syntax highlighting package written in Python.

It is a generic syntax highlighter suitable for use in code hosting, forums, wikis or other applications that need to prettify source code. Highlights are:

  • a wide range of over 300 languages and other text formats is supported

  • special attention is paid to details, increasing quality by a fair amount

  • support for new languages and formats are added easily

  • a number of output formats, presently HTML, LaTeX, RTF, SVG, all image formats that PIL supports and ANSI sequences

  • it is usable as a command-line tool and as a library

License#

BSD-2-Clause

Upstream Contact#

https://pypi.org/project/Pygments/

Type#

standard

Dependencies#

Version Information#

package-version.txt:

2.18.0

version_requirements.txt:

pygments >=2.12

Equivalent System Packages#

$ sudo pacman -S python-pygments

$ conda install pygments

$ sudo apt-get install python3-pygments

$ sudo yum install python-pygments

$ sudo emerge dev-python/pygments

$ brew install pygments

$ sudo port install py-pygments

$ sudo zypper install python3\$\{PYTHON_MINOR\}-pygments

$ sudo xbps-install python3-Pygments

See https://repology.org/project/pygments/versions, https://repology.org/project/python:pygments/versions

If the system package is installed and if the (experimental) option --enable-system-site-packages is passed to ./configure, then ./configure will check if the system package can be used.