posit-dev / posit-dev/positron
Python: Not needed syntax highlighting for string literals
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enhancement
lang: python
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Description
Currently Positron and VSCode still add syntax highlighting to string literal:
In this case, bar is a string literal and will gets automatically escaped correctly by python. I would like to see it not highlight the missing escapes, similiar to how PyCharm does it.
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First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by tracing Positron's Python syntax-highlighting behavior and compare the two examples in the issue with PyCharm's behavior. The work is done when missing escapes in valid Python string literals are no longer highlighted as errors, with coverage for the reported case.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python, vscode
- Domain
- developer-experience, tooling
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100