How can I get rst2html.py to include the CSS for syntax highlighting?

Question

When I run rst2html.py against my ReStructured Text source, with its code-block directive, it adds all the spans and classes to the bits of code in the HTML, but the CSS to

Answer 1

As of Docutils 0.9 you could use the code directive. From the example on this page:

.. code:: python

 def my_function():
     "just a test"
     print 8/2

Alternatively, you can use Pygments for syntax highlighting. See Using Pygments in ReST documents and this SO answer.

Finally, you could also use the code in this or this blogpost.

Update As discussed in the comments, to get the style file used by Pygments use the command

pygmentize -S default -f html -a .highlight > style.css

which will generate the Pygments CSS style file style.css.