Python syntax highlighting problem (strings)

14 years ago • updated 14 years ago • 5

Textastic 3.2
Python

Bug:
Incorrect string end detection when string contains unclosed [

Test case:
r"""
...[
"""
code

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14 years ago

Can you please send me a small .py file that has this problem to support@textasticapp.com?

14 years ago

Done.

14 years ago

Hello,

thanks for sending the file.

Textastic uses syntax definitions from TextMate. I tested your file in TextMate and it has the same syntax highlighting problem.

This seems to be a known issue with regex highlighting in strings in the Python bundle.

On Github, I found this issue: https://github.com/textmate/python.tmbundle/issues/1 - it doesn't seem to be fixed yet.

14 years ago

You can see the cause of this issue in the first comment:

Raw strings are explicitly set up to do regex pattern styling, so having a non-regex in a raw string will, as you see, mess things up.
(I'm not arguing for or against this behavior.)

14 years ago

Ok, I see.... That isn't big deal)
Thanks for your amazing app again!

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