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Improve highlighting of string formatting

See original GitHub issue

I’d like to suggest the following changes which would improve string highlighting greatly imo:

Scope brackets {} and %() as punctuation. Many other language packages do this:

Scope lists correctly, the same way as in fstrings: list

speed = [300]
print('This car runs at {0[0]}km/h'.format(speed))
print(f'This car runs at {speed[0]}km/h')

Scope format types in % strings, the same way as in fstrings: type

cats = 2
print(f'She has {cats:02d} cats')
print('She has %(cats)02d cats' % {'cats': cats})

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Created 6 years ago
Comments:7 (5 by maintainers)

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timmeinhardtcommented, Nov 23, 2017

Thank you for your fast response. I was indeed using two Python extensions (Python for VSCode and Python) simultaneously. This caused the inconsistencies. Sorry for the stupid mistake!

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timmeinhardtcommented, Nov 23, 2017

I am currently experiencing inconsistent f-string highlighting with Visual Studio Code. The issue of missing syntax highlighting occurs with more complex statements and if additional formatting info is present. Is this not yet implemented or a misconfiguration from my side?