[TxMt] Python grammar bugs

[Alexander Ross]

Paul,

The first bug that you mention was corrected some time ago.  What  
version of TM are you using?

The second one has been corrected in the latest SVN.

- AJ

On Nov 23, 2006, at 7:23 PM, Paul Williamson wrote:

> I have discovered a couple of oddities in the Python language grammar:
>
> Function names containing digits are not handled the same as  
> functions names that do not contain digits. You can see this by  
> looking at how the following code is highlighted:
>
> def foo(self):
> 	pass
>
> def foo2(self):
> 	pass
> 	
> I have not spent much time studying TextMate language grammars yet,  
> but it appears that the "begin" regular expression for  
> meta.function.python should be modified to allow digits in the  
> function name.
>
>
> Type names are highlighted as type names even in contexts where  
> they couldn't possibly be type names. For example, in:
>
> 	foo.set(x)
> 	
> the member function "set" is highlighted as if it were a type.
>
> A negative look-behind RE could distinguish this specific case. I  
> don't know how many other such cases are lurking in Python.
>
> One could argue that it's bad practice to use type names as method  
> names. Probably so, but it's not always avoidable. In particular,  
> "set" wasn't even a type name until recently, and it's used as a  
> method name in the standard library (e.g., in Tkinter). It's also a  
> very nice verb to use as a method name.
>
>
> Both of these came up while typing in a single recipe from _Python  
> Cookbook_ (Recipe 11.11 from the 2nd Edition). I hope that's not  
> typical. Syntax coloring needs to be *more* reliable than  
> eyeballing the code.
>
>   -Paul
> paul at mustbeart.com
>
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