gert cuykens <gert.cuyk...@gmail.com> added the comment: On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 4:55 PM, Tal Einat <rep...@bugs.python.org> wrote: > > Tal Einat <talei...@gmail.com> added the comment: > > I'm +1 on adding such an option to the menu, if only to be able to highlight > files including only Python code which don't happen to have the .py extension. > > If support for files including not only Python code is important to anyone, > some examples of such files would be very helpful. I've never seen such files > and I don't know how common such uses are.
Really, docs.python.org is full of examples with python code in it :) Try to parse this html file (http://docs.python.org/tutorial/controlflow.html) for testing. > Supporting files with some Python code in between other stuff is a different > matter. Non-Python code being wrongly highlighted may be fine, but we'll need > to make sure that the syntax highlighting is robust enough to be able to > withstand going through a lot of invalid syntax, and still correctly > highlight most of the Python code found in between. If IDLE fails to > highlight a file it could of course fail gracefully, give an error message > and not highlight, so I don't foresee this causing any stability issues. > ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue6858> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
