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Use Pygments to format <pre> blocks #138

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@briancohan

Right now, in wtpython.formatters we have PythonCodeConverter which assumes all <pre> blocks are python code. This is certainly a good assumption given our code, but it's likely we'll encounter non-python code in a stackoverflow post.

Pygments appears to be able to guess a language from a code block.

https://pygments.org/docs/quickstart/#guessing-lexers
https://pygments.org/docs/api/#pygments.lexers.guess_lexer

Suggest replacing PythonCodeConverter with a PygmentsCodeConverter that will try to detect a language. If there's an issue, then python should be a fallback.

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