Question

In Github/MD, if we want to enable code block when it is a child of list, we need to intent it by 8 spaces.

But how to make that code block has the syntax highlighting feature?

The following code does not work as expected…

    1. foo

             ```python
                print 'bar'
             ```

    2. bar

Answer 1

```python
print 'bar'
```

without spaces should work: from GitHub help page:

Just wrap your code blocks in “` and you won’t need to indent manually to trigger a code block.

---

As illustrated in hilz‘s answer below, you need to indent the ““ with the same indentation level + 2 spaces than your list.
The content of the code block doesn’t need to be indented.

1. foo

  ````python
print 'bar'
  ````

  1.

    ````python
print 'bar'
    ````

See this gist as an example: