John Coleman wrote: > John Coleman wrote: >> Greetings, >> I am currently trying to learn Python through the excellent >> "Learning Python" book.
me too! > It isn't just #hash, but also things like #dict, #int, #len at the > start of a comment line which defeats IDLE's colorization algorithm. > Interestingly, things like #while or #for behave as expected so it > seems to be built-ins rather than keywords which are the problem. To > answer my own question - this is pretty clearly a (harmless) bug. also notice that putting a space after # stops the problem -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list