Sphinx inline code highlight

I use Sphinx to make a website that contains code samples. I'm successful using the .. code-block directive to get syntax highlighting. But I can't get inline syntax highlighting using this code:

.. role:: bash(code)
   :language: bash

Test inline: :bash:`export FOO="bar"`.

.. code-block:: bash

    export FOO="bar"

which produces this output i.e. inline code not highlighted while block code is:

Problem to me is that the generated HTML for inline code contains long class names while it does not for code blocks. Here is the output HTML (indented for readability):

<p>Test inline:
    <tt class="code bash docutils literal">
        <span class="name builtin">
            <span class="pre">export</span>
        </span>
        <span class="name variable">
            <span class="pre">FOO</span>
        </span>
        <span class="operator">
            <span class="pre">=</span>
        </span>
        <span class="literal string double">
            <span class="pre">&quot;bar&quot;</span>
        </span>
    </tt>.
</p>


<p>Test code-block:</p>
<div class="highlight-bash">
    <div class="highlight">
        <pre>
            <span class="nb">export </span>
            <span class="nv">FOO</span>
            <span class="o">=</span>
            <span class="s2">&quot;bar&quot;</span>
        </pre>
    </div>
</div>

Any help would be very much appreciated.

OK I used this workaround: I generate a css file that contains both short and long names. I'm still interested in the "good" answer.

#!/usr/bin/env python

"""Generate a css file thanks to pygments that will contain both short
and long class names."""


import subprocess
import sys


PYGMENTIZE = 'pygmentize'


def parse_command_line():
    import argparse
    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=__doc__)
    parser.add_argument('-s', '--style', default='colorful')
    parser.add_argument('-p', '--prefix', default='.highlight')
    return parser.parse_args()


def pygmentize(style, prefix='.highlight'):
    cmd = '{0} -f html -S {1} -a {2}'.format(PYGMENTIZE, style, prefix)
    # This will fail if pygmentize does not exist.
    try:
        p = subprocess.Popen(cmd.split(), stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
    except OSError:
        print >> sys.stderr, '{0}: command not found'.format(PYGMENTIZE)
        exit(1)

    out, err = p.communicate()
    if p.returncode != 0:
        exit(p.returncode)
    return out


def main():
    args = parse_command_line()
    style = args.style
    prefix = args.prefix

    # Print new css header.
    header = """\
/* 
 * This is pygment css style {0} generated with
 *     {1}
 */""".format(style, ' '.join(sys.argv))
    print header

    # Parse pygmentize output.
    # Find long names based on comments.
    content = pygmentize(style, prefix)
    s = content.splitlines()
    out = ''
    for line in s:
        start = line.find("/* ") + 3
        end = line.find(" */")
        # if line has a comment
        if start != 2:
            comment = line[start:end]
            name = '.' + comment.lower()
            arg = line[line.find('{ '): start - 4]
            out += '%(prefix)s %(name)s %(arg)s\n' % vars()

    print content
    print out


if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()