On 2015-10-22 9:42 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:

If you want my advice, it would be to either just pick whichever style of formatting you like, and people will either like your code highlighter and use it, or they won't, or you should consider a plug-in architecture where your users can choose the string-highlighter style they want, and even extend it to other DSLs.

Yeah, I finally figured out a way to make the highlighter easily configurable, so that users can turn on/off highlighting of regexes, formatting literals, python2 support etc. This discussion was actually quite useful to me. Thanks to everybody for feedback! Yury