pygments JSONFormatter

JSONFormatter.py

from pygments.lexers import MatlabLexer
from pygments.formatter import Formatter
from pygments.token import STANDARD_TYPES
from pygments import highlight

class JSONFormatter(Formatter):
    def format(self, tokensource, outfile):
        tokensource = [{STANDARD_TYPES[k]: v} for k, v in tokensource]
        json.dump(tokensource, outfile)

code = """function [outputs] = myfun(inputs)
% MYFUN a matlab function
%   [OUTPUTS] = MYFUN(INPUTS)
outputs = inputs
end"""

print highlight(code)