To put code in one of these cute boxes, you have to indent each line of wiki-text by one space: def function(): print "hello" Fortunately, cutting and pasting out of the cute box results in properly formatted Python code. To quickly format your code for cut-and-paste into the wiki on a Linux computer, you can use the sed command. $ sed -e 's/^/ /' < file.py This command adds a single space to the beginning of each line of your file. Since empty lines cause new boxes to be created, you'll probably want to adjust the output code to taste.