# Using Pygments in ReST documents

Many Python people use ReST for documentation their sourcecode, programs, scripts et cetera. This also means that documentation often includes sourcecode samples or snippets.

You can easily enable Pygments support for your ReST texts using a custom directive – this is also how this documentation displays source code.

From Pygments 0.9, the directive is shipped in the distribution as external/rst-directive.py. You can copy and adapt this code to your liking.