Syntax highlighting engine written in Python

Pygments 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 500 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