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- Welcome to Pygments
- ===================
- 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.
- Installing
- ----------
- ... works as usual, use ``pip install Pygments`` to get published versions,
- or ``pip install -e .`` to install from a checkout in editable mode.
- Documentation
- -------------
- ... can be found online at https://pygments.org/ or created with Sphinx by ::
- tox -e doc
- 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 ::
- tox -e web-doc
- 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
- Development
- -----------
- ... takes place on `GitHub <https://github.com/pygments/pygments>`_, where the
- Git repository, tickets and pull requests can be viewed.
- Continuous testing runs on GitHub workflows:
- .. image:: https://github.com/pygments/pygments/workflows/Pygments/badge.svg
- :target: https://github.com/pygments/pygments/actions?query=workflow%3APygments
- Please read our `Contributing instructions <https://pygments.org/docs/contributing>`_.
- Security considerations
- -----------------------
- Pygments provides no guarantees on execution time, which needs to be taken
- into consideration when using Pygments to process arbitrary user inputs. For
- example, if you have a web service which uses Pygments for highlighting, there
- may be inputs which will cause the Pygments process to run "forever" and/or use
- significant amounts of memory. This can subsequently be used to perform a
- remote denial-of-service attack on the server if the processes are not
- terminated quickly.
- Unfortunately, it's practically impossible to harden Pygments itself against
- those issues: Some regular expressions can result in "catastrophic
- backtracking", but other bugs like incorrect matchers can also
- cause similar problems, and there is no way to find them in an automated fashion
- (short of solving the halting problem.) Pygments has extensive unit tests,
- automated randomized testing, and is also tested by `OSS-Fuzz <https://github.com/google/oss-fuzz/tree/master/projects/pygments>`_,
- but we will never be able to eliminate all bugs in this area.
- Our recommendations are:
- * Ensure that the Pygments process is *terminated* after a reasonably short
- timeout. In general Pygments should take seconds at most for reasonably-sized
- input.
- * *Limit* the number of concurrent Pygments processes to avoid oversubscription
- of resources.
- The Pygments authors will treat any bug resulting in long processing times with
- high priority -- it's one of those things that will be fixed in a patch release.
- When reporting a bug where you suspect super-linear execution times, please make
- sure to attach an input to reproduce it.
- The authors
- -----------
- Pygments is maintained by **Georg Brandl**, e-mail address *georg*\ *@*\ *python.org*, **Matthäus Chajdas** and **Jean Abou-Samra**.
- Many lexers and fixes have been contributed by **Armin Ronacher**, the rest of
- the `Pocoo <https://www.pocoo.org/>`_ 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.
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