{"id":449,"date":"2011-06-28T21:53:52","date_gmt":"2011-06-28T19:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/visurus.wordpress.com\/?p=449"},"modified":"2011-06-28T21:53:52","modified_gmt":"2011-06-28T19:53:52","slug":"syntax-highlighting-on-wordpress-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/2011\/06\/syntax-highlighting-on-wordpress-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Syntax highlighting on WordPress.com"},"content":{"rendered":"

In order to present readable and usable code here on WordPress.com without manually formatting it I searched the intertubes for an elegant solution\u00a0\u2013\u00a0and found one here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

[sourcecode language=”python” gutter=”false”]
\nimport math, string<\/p>\n

def readFile(file):
\n """Reads a file from disk and returns its content as a string variable
\n :param file: path to a file to be read
\n """
\n with open(file, ‘r’) as f:
\n data = f.read()
\n return data<\/p>\n

def countCharsWhitespace(data):
\n """Returns the number of characters in a string as an integer,
\n including whitespace characters and punctuation marks, but
\n not newline characters
\n :param data: string variable containing the text to be analysed
\n """
\n data = data.replace(‘n’,”)
\n return len(data)<\/p>\n

def countWords(data):
\n """Returns the number of words in a string as an integer
\n :param data: string variable containing the text to be analysed
\n """
\n return len(data.split())[\/sourcecode]<\/p>\n

The syntax highlighting works with what WordPress seems to call a shortcode: [ sourcecode ]<\/em>. Presently some 25 languages are supported<\/a>\u00a0and various options further customise the look and feel of the code representation (for example, line numbers could easily be added to above display):<\/p>\n