[New-bugs-announce] [issue24448] Syntax highlighting marks multiline comments as strings

[irdb]

New submission from irdb:

It has been suggested by BDFL to use triple-quoted strings as multiline comments.[1]

Allegedly, some editors already makes a distinction between these kind of comments and docstring and highlight them differently.

It would be nice if IDLE could also highlight these kind of comments with the same color as the other single-line comments.

[1]: https://stackoverflow.com/posts/7696966/revisions

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components: IDLE
messages: 245334
nosy: irdb
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Syntax highlighting marks multiline comments as strings
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.4

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