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 500 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 https://pygments.org/ or created with Sphinx by ::

   cd doc
   make html

Development
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... 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

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 <https://dev.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.
