Closes #695: When the highlight language "python" is specified explicitly, do not try to parse the code to recognize non-Python snippets.

Thanks to Jonas Haag for the patch.

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/sphinx/writers/html.py b/sphinx/writers/html.py
index 787b3105..1830519c 100644
--- a/sphinx/writers/html.py
+++ b/sphinx/writers/html.py
@@ -233,12 +233,13 @@ class HTMLTranslator(BaseTranslator):
         lang = self.highlightlang
         linenos = node.rawsource.count('\n') >= \
                   self.highlightlinenothreshold - 1
+        highlight_args = node.get('highlight_args', {})
         if node.has_key('language'):
             # code-block directives
             lang = node['language']
+            highlight_args['force'] = True
         if node.has_key('linenos'):
             linenos = node['linenos']
-        highlight_args = node.get('highlight_args', {})
         def warner(msg):
             self.builder.warn(msg, (self.builder.current_docname, node.line))
         highlighted = self.highlighter.highlight_block(