Tal Einat <talei...@gmail.com> added the comment:

I'm +1 on adding such an option to the menu, if only to be able to highlight 
files including only Python code which don't happen to have the .py extension.

If support for files including not only Python code is important to anyone, 
some examples of such files would be very helpful. I've never seen such files 
and I don't know how common such uses are.

Supporting files with some Python code in between other stuff is a different 
matter. Non-Python code being wrongly highlighted may be fine, but we'll need 
to make sure that the syntax highlighting is robust enough to be able to 
withstand going through a lot of invalid syntax, and still correctly highlight 
most of the Python code found in between. If IDLE fails to highlight a file it 
could of course fail gracefully, give an error message and not highlight, so I 
don't foresee this causing any stability issues.

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