The Pypi Pygments Page in the Cheese Shop

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Last night I tried unsuccessfully to install a version of pygments capable of Dart syntax highlighting. Ultimately, I want to use this to add syntax highlighting to the epub and mobi versions of Dart for Hipsters. The git-scribe toolchain that I use for ebooks can use pygments if configured correctly (as I found last night).

Dart is new enough that it is not in version 1.4 of pygments, but seems to be in 1.5. If only I can figure out how to install it. Ah... python.

I found that easy_install Pygments simply installs version 1.4, which I already have via Ubuntu packages. The only mention of 1.5 on the download page is that I can find it in the "cheese shop". As far as I can tell, the "cheese shop" is a reference to the Monty Python sketch, but how that relates to a site named http://pypi.python.org, I cannot guess. No matter, I'm sure Ruby seems just as opaque to Pythonistas.

On the pypi pygments page (yeah, I just wrote that), it seems that I need to supply the ==dev argument. I am unsure if ==dev is a common pypi thing or not. Documentation would seem to suggest not—that supplying version numbers is more common (e.g. easy_install PackageName==1.2.3). Something to try if ==dev does not work...

While I am at it, one other thing that I cannot figure out on that pypi Pygments page is what a "tip" is:

The Pygments tip is installable with easy_install Pygments==dev

Is Ruby obscure like this? Anyhow...

I try installing the dev version:

➜  ~  sudo easy_install Pygments==dev
Searching for Pygments==dev
Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/Pygments/
Reading http://pygments.org/
Reading http://pygments.pocoo.org/
Best match: Pygments dev
Downloading http://trac.pocoo.org/repos/pygments/trunk#egg=Pygments-dev
error: Can't download http://trac.pocoo.org/repos/pygments/trunk: 404 Not Found

Rooting through that pocoo.org URL space, it seems that Trac has been abandoned for bitbucket. I am not sure how to go about troubleshooting that, so I try ==1.5 instead:

➜  ~  sudo easy_install Pygments==1.5
Searching for Pygments==1.5
Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/Pygments/
Reading http://pygments.org/
Reading http://pygments.pocoo.org/
Best match: Pygments 1.5
Downloading http://pypi.python.org/packages/2.7/P/Pygments/Pygments-1.5-py2.7.egg#md5=8ea02c2eafb2580336b7637be629f7ce
Processing Pygments-1.5-py2.7.egg
creating /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/Pygments-1.5-py2.7.egg
Extracting Pygments-1.5-py2.7.egg to /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages
Adding Pygments 1.5 to easy-install.pth file
Installing pygmentize script to /usr/local/bin

Installed /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/Pygments-1.5-py2.7.egg
Processing dependencies for Pygments==1.5
Finished processing dependencies for Pygments==1.5

That worked?! Er... I mean of course that worked. Yay!

And, indeed, I do have version 1.5 now and, more importantly, Dart pygments:

➜  ~  pygmentize -V 
Pygments version 1.5, (c) 2006-2011 by Georg Brandl.
➜  ~  pygmentize -L | grep -i dart
* dart:
    Dart (filenames *.dart)

Now when I run git-scribe gen epub, I no longer get dozens of warnings about Dart not being supported. Rather I get a single warning about a missing pygments.css stylesheet:

➜  dart-book git:(master) ✗ git-scribe gen epub
GENERATING EPUB
GENERATING HTML
asciidoc: WARNING: book.asc: line 4: include file not found: /home/cstrom/repos/dart-book/output/stylesheets/pygments.css
asciidoc: reading: /etc/asciidoc/asciidoc.conf
...

Viewing the resultant epub in iBooks, I do not have syntax highlighting, so I suspect this missing CSS file. I grab the first gist I can find that might contain useful CSS and paste it into /home/cstrom/repos/dart-book/output/stylesheets/pygments.css. The next time I run git-scribe, I no longer get any pygments-related warning, but I still do not have syntax highlighting on the iPad.

That will serve as a stopping point for tonight. I have pygments working well enough (or at least not crashing). I will examine the rest of the toolchain in an effort to get syntax highlighting in epub working. Tomorrow.

Day #345