This is the home of Pygments. 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 547 languages and other text formats is supported

• special attention is paid to details that increase highlighting quality

• support for new languages and formats are added easily; most languages use a simple regex-based lexing mechanism

• a number of output formats is available, among them HTML, RTF, LaTeX and ANSI sequences

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