[Nano-devel] python syntax: trying to not highlight print( and exec(

[Ben Mintz]

I'm working on a patch which would avoid highlighting the two

keywords-turned-functions in python 3. It assumes that print(x) is a function invocation

and print (x) is a statement.

Here's what I have:

color brightcyan "\<(exec|print)\>[^\(]"

This is inspired by highlight js doing the same:

https://github.com/highlightjs/highlight.js/blob/1d5e9c1add75abcb39663110bd78de9845da7607/src/languages/python.js#L116

This works fine until you have a line which just contains "print". In python 2, this prints

a newline.

How can I get that to be highlighted?

Thanks,

Benjamin Mintz

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