attribute on inline verbatim (for syntax highlighting) only works if delimited blocks elsewhere

[uvtc]

This is regarding Pandoc 1.9.4.2.

If I create just a short document consisting of only:

Some code `print "hi"`{.python} here.

and process it via pandoc -s -o foo.html foo.txt, that little bit of inline code is not syntax-highlighted.

But if the file contains a delimited code block with a filetype attribute, for example:

Some code `print "hi"`{.python} here.

Also:

~~~bash
echo "hi"
~~~

then that inline code is properly syntax-highlighted.