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25.3; New Python3.6 f-string syntax highlighting support (feature request)

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From: Campbell Barton <ideasman42 <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 25.3;
 New Python3.6 f-string syntax highlighting support (feature request)
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2018 23:09:36 +1100

In python 3.6, code can be evaluated in a string, called an f-string,
see: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0498/

It would be nice if python-mode would not syntax highlight the code in
the f-string as a string, and instead use regular syntax highlighting.

eg:

    print(f'Test {} me!'.format(2 + 2))

can be written as:

    print(f'Test {2 + 2} me!')

I noticed php-mode (which had something like this for many years)
does for for PHP's strings, eg: "Test {$2 + 2} me!"

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It was recommended I send in a feature request:
see: https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/39283

Thanks

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From: Valentin Ignatev <valentignatev <at> gmail.com>
To: 30750 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: MagicPython
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2019 22:57:32 +0300

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I wonder if MagicPython project could be useful to implement this.
Currently, it has a pretty comprehensive test suit:
https://github.com/MagicStack/MagicPython/tree/master/test/fstrings

And it has f-strings grammar defined in a yaml file:
https://github.com/MagicStack/MagicPython/blob/master/grammars/src/pyfstring.inc.syntax.yaml

At the very least, it could serve as a widely adopted reference (Atom,
Sublime, and VS Code use it).

I also wrote a very naive and wrong hack for personal use, based on
php-mode:

```
(defconst python-f-string-regexp
  "{[[:word:]]+\\.?[[:word:]]+?}")

(defun python-f-string-font-lock-find (limit)
  (while (re-search-forward python-f-string-regexp limit t)
      (when (python-syntax-comment-or-string-p)
        (put-text-property (match-beginning 0) (match-end 0)
                           'face 'font-lock-variable-name-face)))
  nil)

(with-eval-after-load 'python
  (font-lock-add-keywords
   'python-mode
   `((python-f-string-font-lock-find))
   'append))
```

(I'm really sorry, I don't know how to format monospaced text in debbugs)

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From: npostavs <at> gmail.com
To: Valentin Ignatev <valentignatev <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 30750 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#30750: 25.3;
 New Python3.6 f-string syntax highlighting support (feature request)
Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2019 16:49:59 -0400

Valentin Ignatev <valentignatev <at> gmail.com> writes:

> I wonder if MagicPython project could be useful to implement this.

Not directly, unless we port Emacs to JavaScript.

> At the very least, it could serve as a widely adopted reference (Atom,
> Sublime, and VS Code use it).

That's true.

> (I'm really sorry, I don't know how to format monospaced text in debbugs)

No worries, check https://debbugs.gnu.org/30750#8, your whole post is
already monospaced :)

(but posting code as attachment often works better, because gmail tends
to add line wrapping to the email body)

Message #18 received at 30750-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Campbell Barton <ideasman42 <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Valentin Ignatev <valentignatev <at> gmail.com>,
 Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>, 30750-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 npostavs <at> gmail.com
Subject: Re: bug#30750: 25.3; New Python3.6 f-string syntax highlighting
 support (feature request)
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2020 14:09:18 -0400

> It would be nice if python-mode would not syntax highlight the code in
> the f-string as a string, and instead use regular syntax highlighting.

I just pushed a change to the `master` branch of Emacs which should
do that.


        Stefan

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