How to activate Pygments in Pelican?

Question

What I have to do to make it work that simple as in this example from official documentation?

:::python
print("The triple-colon syntax will *not* show line numbers.")

#!python
print("The path-less shebang syntax *will* show line numbers.")

What should I add to the pelicanconf.py? This is my requirements.txt:

blinker==1.4
colorama==0.4.4
commonmark==0.9.1
docutils==0.18
feedgenerator==2.0.0
Jinja2==3.0.2
Markdown==3.3.4
MarkupSafe==2.0.1
pelican==4.7.1
pelican-related-posts==1.0.0
pelican-series==2.1.0
Pygments==2.10.0
python-dateutil==2.8.2
pytz==2021.3
rich==10.12.0
six==1.16.0
Unidecode==1.3.2

I am using virtual environment, maybe that helps.

Answer 1

Actually there is nothing to "activate", because everything is working "out of the box". I've been just confused by codehilite documentation since it points out that you need somehow "download and install the Pygments package on your PYTHONPATH". With download part there is all clear as Pygments was installed alongside Pelican, but I was having troubles with "install the Pygments package on your PYTHONPATH" due to my lack of knowledge of how PIP works inside of virtual environment. Please vote to delete this question if you find it useless.

Answer 2

You do not need to activate Pygments. This blog post has some information on Pygments and CodeHilite and how they work.

https://georgexyz.com/code-highlight-in-pelican.html