Getting Text object from Syntax

[ronf]

I have an application where I'd like to do syntax coloring but get the result back as a Text() object that I can do additional operations on. I didn't see anything in the documentation about how to do this, but I did see the highlight() method in the source code which seems to return a Text, just like I wanted. However, it's an instance method rather than a class method, and it takes "code" as an argument. So, I end up with something like:

   text_obj = Syntax(code, lexer).highlight(code)

Note that code here has to be passed in twice. Alternately, I can do something ugly like:

   text_obj = Syntax('', lexer).highlight(code)

This works because the "code" argument in highlight() seems to take precedence over the one in the constructor. However, neither of these solutions seems right. Also, even though highlilght() is a public method, it's not documented, so I worry it may change in the future.

Is there a better way to do what I'm trying to do here?