On Dec 22, 2:15 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thinking about unclosed multi-line quotes. > > When you open a multi-line quote (type '"""') what does your editor > do? Does it color the remainder of your text as a quote, or does it > color the line with the open quote as a quote and leave the rest of > your code alone? > > What do you want it to do? > > This is a tokenizer question in disguise, of course. The simple way to > handle it, which is what my editor sees, is for the tokenizer to > return the remainder of the text as one great UNCLOSED_MULTILINE_QUOTE > token. The alternative is to assume that the line with the unclosed > quote is in error and to continue to tokenize the rest. An editor > might blink or otherwise draw attention to the unmatched quote.
Are you asking about IDLE? If it is, IDLE considers the remainder of the code as part of multiline-quote and thus colors them green (in default color scheme). This behavior is consistent with any other code editors way of handling multiline comments (Frontpage, Dreamweaver, etc). IMHO, it is a fine behavior, such a huge color change would be immediately noticed by any non-color-blind people and they'll immediately close the multiline (perhaps in panic) before filling the multiline. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list