Message "you must have pygmentize installed" while Pygments is already installed

[bjce]

I'm try to use the minted package in latex to display code in latex document. From Texstudio, I get an error message "you must have pygmentize installed to use this package". However, if I type pip3 install pygments I get Requirement already satisfied: pygments in /usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages (2.3.1) which means that pip3 has installed it on the machine

What am I doing wrong?

Thank you very much!

[NobbZ]

Can you call the pygmentize executable? It needs to be in your PATH that minted can find it.

[bjce]

Thank you very much for your quick answer @NobbZ.

So from Pyhton3 i get the following message:

>>> import sys
>>> sys.path
['', '/usr/local/Cellar/python/3.7.3/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python37.zip', 
'/usr/local/Cellar/python/3.7.3/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7', 
'/usr/local/Cellar/python/3.7.3/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/lib-dynload', 
'/Users/mymac/Library/Python/3.7/lib/python/site-packages', '/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages', 
'/usr/local/Cellar/numpy/1.15.4_1/libexec/nose/lib/python3.7/site-packages']

how can I find and call the pygmentize executable? Sorry for the basic question

[mbaz]

Just call pygmentize from the command line.

$ pygmentize -V
Pygments version 2.3.1, (c) 2006-2017 by Georg Brandl.
$

[bjce]

ok thank you! I get the following (copy carbon of your output)

$ pygmentize -V
Pygments version 2.3.1, (c) 2006-2017 by Georg Brandl.

[mbaz]

Are you running Latex with the -shell-escape option? Without it, Latex can't call outside programs. I don't use TexStudio, but it must have an option to let you configure options passed to the latex engine.

[bjce]

ok I found the answer:

you have to run the following line in the .tex file:

% !TeX TXS-program:compile = txs:///pdflatex/[--shell-escape]

Many thanks for your answers

[intractabilis]

I run LaTeX with -shell-escape and still have this problem. LuaHBTeX, Version 1.15.0 (TeX Live 2022). pygmentize is installed, in the PATH, and is runnable from command line. It seems -shell-escape like has no effect:

sh: -c: line 1: syntax error near unexpected token `('
sh: -c: line 1: `which pygmentize && mylatexfile(prev).aex'

The command line to compile was

lualatex  -shell-escape -synctex=1 -interaction=nonstopmode -file-line-error -recorder  "mylatexfile(prev).tex"

[muzimuzhi]

@intractabilis I would suggest to open a new issue rather than commenting under a closed one. Same error message may be caused by different reasons.

It seems your issue is caused by the ( and ) in mylatexfile(prev).tex, which hold special meaning for the shell. \minted@jobname need to be quoted as well, like what have been done to pygmentize command-line options in https://github.com/gpoore/minted/commit/25e1f300159c3e7848026688415141508248d113.

[intractabilis]

I am going to check first if it is a luatex's problem. I have a suspicion xelatex will work.

[HolgerGerhardt]

I was facing the same issue: Compiling with LuaLaTeX from the command line worked but it did not when I used TeXstudio. The solution was to tell TeXstudio the path to the pygmentize binary (in my case, /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.11/bin) in the TeXstudio Preferences, section “Build”, subsection “Additional Search Paths”, field “Commands ($PATH)”.

In other words, it seems that TeXstudio does not access the shell’s $PATH variable.