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Python syntax highlighting for Vim

This is an enhanced version of the original Vim 6.1 Python syntax highlighting python.vim by Neil Schemenauer.

Features

  • Enhanced highlighting for:
    • Strings
    • Special symbols inside strings
    • Numeric constants
  • Added support for:
    • Python 3
    • Numbers with underscores
    • String %-formatting and f-strings
    • Magic comments: source code encoding and shebangs
    • New exceptions and builtins
    • Doctests
    • @decorator syntax
    • Class variables such as self, cls, and mcs
    • Operators
  • Highlighting of the following errors:
    • Invalid symbols in source file
    • Invalid numeric constants
    • Invalid %-formatting inside strings
    • Invalid variable names
    • Invalid operators
    • Mixing spaces and tabs
    • Trailing spaces (Enabled with g:python_highlight_space_errors)
  • Commands for easy switching between versions

Folding is done by the plugin SimpylFold.

How to install

Use one of the following plugin managers:

Configuration

Option variables

Set variable to 1 to enable or 0 to disable.

For example to enable all syntax highlighting features you can add the following command to your ~/.config/nvim/init.vim or ~/.vimrc:

let g:python_highlight_all = 1
Variable Description Default
g:python_version_2 Python 2 mode 0
b:python_version_2 Python 2 mode (buffer local) 0
g:python_highlight_builtins Highlight builtin objects, types, and functions 0
g:python_highlight_builtin_objs Highlight builtin objects only 0
g:python_highlight_builtin_types Highlight builtin types only 0
g:python_highlight_builtin_funcs Highlight builtin functions only 0
g:python_highlight_builtin_funcs_kwarg Highlight builtin functions when used as kwarg 1
g:python_highlight_exceptions Highlight standard exceptions 0
g:python_highlight_string_formatting Highlight % string formatting 0
g:python_highlight_string_format Highlight syntax of str.format syntax 0
g:python_highlight_string_templates Highlight syntax of string.Template 0
g:python_highlight_indent_errors Highlight indentation errors 0
g:python_highlight_space_errors Highlight trailing spaces 0
g:python_highlight_doctests Highlight doc-tests 0
g:python_highlight_func_calls Highlight functions calls 0
g:python_highlight_class_vars Highlight class variables self, cls, and mcs 0
g:python_highlight_operators Highlight all operators 0
g:python_highlight_all Enable all highlight options above, except for previously set. 0
g:python_highlight_file_headers_as_comments Highlight shebang and coding headers as comments 0
g:python_slow_sync Disable for slow machines 1

Commands

Command Description
Python2Syntax Switch to Python 2
Python3Syntax Switch to Python 3

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