Re: [Docutils-users] passing options to pygment in code directive

[Guenter M. <mi...@us...>]

On 2012-10-03, rndblnch wrote:
> hello,

> some pygment lexers do have options.
> PythonConsoleLexer is such a lexer: it supports a boolean python3 option to 
> support Python console output for both python2 & python3.

> is there a way to pass an option to pygment from my document?
> i would expect something like:

>| .. code:: pycon
>|     :option: python3

>|     >>> print("Hello world!")
>|     Hello world!

> any idea how to achieve this?

Passing options to pygments is not implemented (yet). It might become, if it
is a common request. The proposed syntax seems all right. 

You might consider filing an enhancement request at the tracker_, so that we
have a permanent record.

Thanks,

Günter

.. _tracker: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=38414&atid=422033