I'm in the same releases matrix ofhttps://travis-ci.org/encode/django-rest-framework/jobs/290016056 and it works on my machine.
Do you have some suggestion ?

Hey@nastasi-oq seegem#1 (comment)

I refactored the test a bit, to show the rendered markdown.

E     <p><code>jsonE     [{E         "alpha": 1,E         "beta: "this is a string"E     }]</code></p>

It looks like it's leaving thejson declaration unprocessed.

@carltongibson the point is that triple backtick is managed in any case (without pygments) as block of<code>, fixed.
If you want to have a full coverage you must add pygments and markdown optional installation as 2 new dimensions of tox matrix.
(I was testing with pygments but travis has not).
Currently Pygments is not yet in the optional requierements too.

I was testing with pygments but travis has not

Fine. That explains that.

Hello! I had missed that one could use markdown in view docstrings to get nice code blocks, since it’s more common to have reST in the Python world, so first let me say thanks!

This PR seems nice, but I can’t make it work locally. After installing markdown and pygments I tried json and javascript as lexer name, with and without leading space, with and without a blank line following. (I know reST and Sphinx very well but always forget details of Github Markdown.)

Could the docs give a simple example?

FTR: Looking at the source code, it seems like the pygments_css function is only used by the DocumentationRenderer, which only works with include_docs_url. The classic HTML API renderer has markdown code blocks without colors.

... it seems like the pygments_css function is only used by the DocumentationRenderer...

@merwok This is because it's only just been added. A PR back porting this to the Browsable API would be welcome I guess.

That’s interesting! I am not ready to switch to include_docs_url in my projects, so I would like to improve Browsable API. I’ll open a ticket if one isn’t already.

Quick update: it turns out that both Documentation and Browsable renderers are quite different but both end up calling apply_markdown. The generated HTML for BrowsableAPIRenderer already contains the pygments markup, only the CSS is missing.

PR coming up tomorrow!