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Available lexers
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This page lists all available builtin lexers and the options they take.

Currently, **all lexers** support these options:

`stripnl`
    Strip leading and trailing newlines from the input (default: ``True``)

`stripall`
    Strip all leading and trailing whitespace from the input (default:
    ``False``).

`tabsize`
    If given and greater than 0, expand tabs in the input (default: ``0``).

`encoding`
    *New in Pygments 0.6.*

    If given, must be an encoding name (such as ``"utf-8"``). This encoding
    will be used to convert the input string to Unicode (if it is not already
    a Unicode string). The default is ``"latin1"``.

    If this option is set to ``"guess"``, a simple UTF-8 vs. Latin-1
    detection is used, if it is set to ``"chardet"``, the
    `chardet library <http://chardet.feedparser.org/>`__ is used to
    guess the encoding of the input.


The "Short Names" field lists the identifiers that can be used with the
`get_lexer_by_name()` function.

These lexers are builtin and can be imported from `pygments.lexers`:

[builtin_lexer_docs]

Iterating over all lexers
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*New in Pygments 0.6.*

To get all lexers (both the builtin and the plugin ones), you can
use the `get_all_lexers()` function from the `pygments.lexers`
module:

.. sourcecode:: pycon

    >>> from pygments.lexers import get_all_lexers
    >>> i = get_all_lexers()
    >>> i.next()
    ('Diff', ('diff',), ('*.diff', '*.patch'), ('text/x-diff', 'text/x-patch'))
    >>> i.next()
    ('Delphi', ('delphi', 'objectpascal', 'pas', 'pascal'), ('*.pas',), ('text/x-pascal',))
    >>> i.next()
    ('XML+Ruby', ('xml+erb', 'xml+ruby'), (), ())

As you can see, the return value is an iterator which yields tuples
in the form ``(name, aliases, filetypes, mimetypes)``.