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Pygments
~~~~~~~~

Pygments is a syntax highlighting package written in Python.

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 over 500 languages and other text formats is supported
* special attention is paid to details, increasing quality by a fair amount
* support for new languages and formats are added easily
* a number of output formats, presently HTML, LaTeX, RTF, SVG, all image
  formats that PIL supports and ANSI sequences
* it is usable as a command-line tool and as a library

Copyright 2006-2023 by the Pygments team, see ``AUTHORS``.
Licensed under the BSD, see ``LICENSE`` for details.