Highlighting of SQL inside strings

The stock Python package performs syntax highlighting inside strings containing SQL commands. That’s rather useful, even though the implementation might need some more work. In this example:

create = 'CREATE TABLE test (id INT, name TEXT);'
insert = 'INSERT INTO test VALUES (1, "Bob")'

in the second line, words recognized as SQL are highlighted, but not in the first one, where “CREATE TABLE” has the same color as the non-reserved names.

(Actually, as you can see, even Github’s Markdown does it, with exactly the same behavior, so perhaps something is wrong with the first line, although it does execute properly)

Do you consider this a useful addition?

[movalex]

Sublime uses not very sophisticated SQL indicator for triple quote highlighting: \s*(?:SELECT|INSERT|UPDATE|DELETE|CREATE|REPLACE|ALTER|WITH)\b

Is it possible to implement this in MagicPython? Seems like a good feature, and used both in Atom and Sublime natively (does not work in VSCode).

    # Triple-quoted raw string, unicode or not, will detect SQL, otherwise regex
    - match: '([uU]?r)(""")'
      captures:
        1: storage.type.string.python
        2: meta.string.python string.quoted.double.block.python punctuation.definition.string.begin.python
      push:
        - meta_content_scope: meta.string.python string.quoted.double.block.python
        - match: '(?={{sql_indicator}})'
          set:
            - meta_scope: meta.string.python string.quoted.double.block.python
            - match: '"""'
              scope: punctuation.definition.string.end.python
              set: after-expression
            - match: ''
              push: scope:source.sql
              with_prototype:
                - match: '(?=""")'
                  pop: true
                - include: escaped-unicode-char
                - include: constant-placeholder
        - match: '(?=\S)'
          set:
            - meta_scope: meta.string.python string.quoted.double.block.python
            - match: '"""'
              scope: punctuation.definition.string.end.python
              set: after-expression
            - match: ''
              push: scope:source.regexp.python
              with_prototype:
                - match: '(?=""")'
                  pop: true
                - include: escaped-unicode-char

[1st1]

Well, we have no plans for adding SQL highlighting. There are many cons/pros about this feature, see the above discussion.