Code Snippets — Display Line Numbers

reStructuredText and Markdown have directives that generate line numbers for code snippets. Install Pygments to use these directives.

Following examples will generate this output,

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def example():
    print 'Hello World'

reStructuredText

reStructuredText has code-block directive to insert code snippets in your markup. Use linenos flag to switch on line numbers for the snippet.

.. code-block:: python
    :linenos:

    def example():
        print 'Hello World'

Markdown

Python-Markdown uses CodeHilite extension for syntax highlighting. Setup CodeHilite , then use Shebang #! to generate line numbers.

#!python
def example():
    print 'Hello World'

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