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+#!/usr/bin/python
+
+# :Author: David Goodger, a Pygments author|contributor, Guenter Milde
+# :Date: $Date: $
+# :Copyright: This module has been placed in the public domain.
+
+# This is a merge of the docutils_ `rst2html` front end with an extension
+# suggestion taken from the pygments_ documentation.
+
+"""
+A front end to docutils, producing HTML with syntax colouring using pygments
+
+Generates (X)HTML documents from standalone reStructuredText sources. Uses
+`pygments` to parse and mark up the content of ``.. code-block::` directives.
+Needs an adapted stylesheet  
+"""
+
+try:
+    import locale
+    locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '')
+except:
+    pass
+
+from docutils.core import publish_cmdline, default_description
+
+# Define and register a new directive `code-block` that uses the `pygments`_
+# source highlighter to render code in color. 
+import pygments_code_block_directive
+
+# Call the docutils publisher to render the input as html::
+description = __doc__ + default_description
+publish_cmdline(writer_name='html', description=description)
+
+# .. _doctutile: http://docutils.sf.net/
+# .. _pygments: http://pygments.org/
+# .. _Using Pygments in ReST documents: http://pygments.org/docs/rstdirective/