Welcome to Pygments
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This is the source of Pygments. It is a **generic syntax highlighter** written
in Python that supports over 300 languages and text formats, for use in code
hosting, forums, wikis or other applications that need to prettify source code.
Installing
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... works as usual, use ``pip install Pygments`` to get published versions,
or ``python setup.py install`` to install from a checkout.
Documentation
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... can be found online at http://pygments.org/ or created with Sphinx by ::
cd doc
make html
Development
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... takes place on `GitHub `_, 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
The authors
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Pygments is maintained by **Georg Brandl**, e-mail address *georg*\ *@*\ *python.org*
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.