Unable to use pygments via PyCall

[dpsanders]

I am trying to use the Python pygments module for syntax highlighting. In Python we can do

from pygments.lexers import JuliaLexer

but the apparently equivalent

using PyCall
@pyimport pygments.lexers as lexers
lexers.JuliaLexer

gives the error

JuliaLexer not defined
while loading In[3], in expression starting on line 1

I had a look at the pygments package, and there seems to be some strange initialization going on in lexers/__init__.py that automagically instantiates the Lexer objects, or something like that, that means that the objects are not found by PyCall.

Is there any way round this problem?

[stevengj]

Try lexers.pymember(:JuliaLexer)

[dpsanders]

Great, thanks very much!