phil9l / code-highlighter

Simple console application (written for my university python course) for translating some language source code into html-highlighted code by some patterns.

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Simple console application (written for my university python course) for translating some language source code into html-highlighted code by some patterns.

Description

Translates some language (python / C / bash) source code into html-highlighted code by using some patterns.

Usage

main.py [-h] [-b] [-l {python,bash,c}] [-d] sourcefile outputfile

Example

./main.py main.py main.py.html

Options

• -h / --help — show help
• -b / --browser — open html in default browser
• -l {python,bash,c} / --language {python,bash,c} — manually select language
• -d / --debug — run script in debug mode
• sourcefile — source file
• outputfile — output file

Structure

utils.py

Subsidiary functions.

• _combine_range(lines, start, end) — combines lines and text in lines into one string from start up to end
• tokenize_source_code(source, tokenizer) — generator, yielding tokens from sourcecode, provided with tokenizer
• html_highlight(classified_text) — generates html formatted text from classified_text tokens
• generate_html_page(classified_text, title) — generates full html page from classified_text tokens and adds title into it

token_types.py

Token type constants.

tokenizing.py

main.py

Small script using utils to convert data from nroff into html format.