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Python 3.5 new keywords, async and await, not syntax highlighted

See original GitHub issue

From https://github.com/pypa/warehouse/issues/3770:

See for instance https://pypi.org/project/influxdbpusher/

It has code snippets with async def and await, which are not being properly highlighted as keywords.

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Created 5 years ago
Comments:8 (4 by maintainers)

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theacodescommented, Apr 19, 2018

looks like it might just be that we need to use the “python3” lexer by default: http://pygments.org/demo/6734166/

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gjcarneirocommented, Nov 2, 2018

Looks like I’m not the only package author with this problem, see https://pypi.org/project/aiokafka/0.4.3/

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