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Syntax highlighting is a feature of text editors that are used for programming, scripting, or markup languages, such as HTML. The feature displays text, especially source code, in different colours and fonts according to the category of terms.
The listings package is a source code printer for LATEX. You can typeset stand alone files as well as listings with an environment similar to verbatim as well as you can print code snippets using a command similar to \verb.
The parameter python is the programming language the source code is written in.
You can use the listings package. It supports many different languages and there are lots of options for customising the output.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{listings}
\begin{document}
\begin{lstlisting}[language=html]
<html>
<head>
<title>Hello</title>
</head>
<body>Hello</body>
</html>
\end{lstlisting}
\end{document}
After asking a similar question I’ve created another package which uses Pygments, and offers quite a few more options than texments. It’s called minted and is quite stable and usable.
Just to show it off, here’s a code highlighted with minted:
I recommend Pygments. It accepts a piece of code in any language and outputs syntax highlighted LaTeX code. It uses fancyvrb and color packages to produce its output. I personally prefer it to the listing package. I think fancyvrb creates much prettier results.
LGrind does this. It's a mature LaTeX package that's been around since adam was a cowboy and has support for many programming languages.
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