def highlight_text()

in lib/pygments/mentos.py [0:0]

• 12 lines of code
• 4 McCabe index (conditional complexity)

    def highlight_text(self, code, lexer, formatter_name, args, kwargs):
        """
        Highlight the relevant code, and return a result string.
        The default formatter is html, but alternate formatters can be passed in via
        the formatter_name argument. Additional paramters can be passed as args
        or kwargs.
        """
        # Default to html if we don't have the formatter name.
        if formatter_name:
            _format_name = str(formatter_name)
        else:
            _format_name = "html"

        # Return a lexer object
        lexer = self.return_lexer(lexer, args, kwargs, code)

        # Make sure we sucessfuly got a lexer
        if lexer:
            formatter = pygments.formatters.get_formatter_by_name(str.lower(_format_name), **kwargs)

            # Do the damn thing.
            res = pygments.highlight(code, lexer, formatter)

            return res

        else:
            _write_error("No lexer")