Python syntax highlighting script for Vim

Contents

About
Features
How to install
Script options
- Option and commands to select Python version
- Options used by the script
Contributors

About

Enhanced version of the original Python syntax highlighting script. Based on python.vim from Vim 6.1 distribution by Neil Schemenauer (nas at python dot ca). Check also python.vim page on vim.org.

Please use the following channels for reporting bugs, offering suggestions or feedback:

python.vim issue tracker: https://github.com/hdima/python-syntax/issues
Email: Dmitry Vasiliev (dima at hlabs.org)
Send a message or follow me for updates on Twitter: @hdima

Features

Changes from the original python.vim are:

Added support for Python 3 syntax highlighting
Added :Python2Syntax and :Python3Syntax commands which allow to switch between Python 2 and Python 3 syntaxes respectively without reloads/restarts
Updated strings highlighting
Enhanced special symbols highlighting inside strings
Enhanced highlighting of numeric constants
Added optional highlighting for %-formatting inside strings
Added highlighting for magic comments: source code encoding and #! (executable) strings
Added highlighting for new exceptions and builtins
Added highlighting for doctests
Added highlighting for new @decorator syntax introduced in Python 2.4a2
Added highlighting for the following errors:
- invalid symbols in source file
- mixing spaces and tabs
- invalid numeric constants
- invalid %-formatting inside strings
- invalid variable names
- trailing spaces (triggered by the python_highlight_space_errors option)

Some of these features was later backported into the original python.vim.

How to install

The easiest installation method is to place syntax/python.vim script into your ~/.vim/syntax/ directory.

You can also use Pathogen or Vundle plugin managers in which case you can install the whole python.vim repository into the corresponding plugins directory.

Script options

There are two commands to enable or disable an option:

:let OPTION_NAME = 1: Enable option
:let OPTION_NAME = 0: Disable option

For example to enable all syntax highlighting features you can place the following command in your ~/.vimrc script:

let python_highlight_all = 1

Option and commands to select Python version

python_version_2: Enable highlighting for Python 2 (Python 3 highlighting is enabled by default). Also can be set as a local to buffer b:python_version_2 variable.

The following local to buffer commands can be used to switch between two highlighting modes:

:Python2Syntax: Switch to Python 2 highlighting mode
:Python3Syntax: Switch to Python 3 highlighting mode

Options used by the script

python_highlight_builtins: Highlight builtin functions and objects
python_highlight_builtin_objs: Highlight builtin objects only
python_highlight_builtin_funcs: Highlight builtin functions only
python_highlight_exceptions: Highlight standard exceptions
python_highlight_string_formatting: Highlight % string formatting
python_highlight_string_format: Highlight syntax of str.format syntax
python_highlight_string_templates: Highlight syntax of string.Template
python_highlight_indent_errors: Highlight indentation errors
python_highlight_space_errors: Highlight trailing spaces
python_highlight_doctests: Highlight doc-tests
python_print_as_function: Highlight print statement as function for Python 2
python_highlight_file_headers_as_comments: Highlight shebang and coding headers as comments
python_highlight_all: Enable all the options above. NOTE: This option don't override any previously set options
python_slow_sync: Can be set to 0 for slow machines