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I spent a bit of time this evening writing a template filter for Django that accepts a string of code (and optionally the name of the Pygments lexer to use for highlighting) and returns the code nicely syntax colored. A simple but slightly helpful addition to your templating arsenal.

You are responding to this comment written by yashh on August 10th 2008, 18:15.

Wow, amazing. I didn't know that we could colorize with pygments using a templatetag. I import the markdown library in my django view and then apply markdown along with its plugin "codehilite". After a while I leant a better way and created a body_html field.

@@python def save(self): body_html = markdown.markdown(body, ['codehilite']) super(Entry, self).save()

In this way I saved some computations. But having a template filter is much more rewarding.

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