[issue24448] Syntax highlighting marks multiline comments as strings

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: It is impossible for Idle to know the purpose of a multiline string. -- nosy: +terry.reedy resolution: -> rejected stage: -> resolved status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker __

[issue24448] Syntax highlighting marks multiline comments as strings

Raymond Hettinger added the comment: -1 on changing the syntax highlighting for strings used as comments. Whether used as comments or for other purposes, they are still strings and the distinction is important for teaching Python. -- nosy: +rhettinger priority: normal -> low

[issue24448] Syntax highlighting marks multiline comments as strings

New submission from irdb: It has been suggested by BDFL to use triple-quoted strings as multiline comments.[1] Allegedly, some editors already makes a distinction between these kind of comments and docstring and highlight them differently. It would be nice if IDLE could also highlight these k