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with [Sublime Text](http://www.sublimetext.com) and [Atom](http://atom.io).
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It is meant to be a drop-in replacement for the default Python package.
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The main motivation behind this package was the difficulty of using modern
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Python with other common syntax highlighters. They do a good job of the 90% of
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the language, but then fail on the nuances of some very useful, but often
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overlooked features. Function annotations tend to freak out the highlighters in
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various ways. Newly introduced keywords and magic methods are slow to be
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integrated. Another issue is string highlighting, where all raw strings are
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often assumed to be regular expressions or special markup used by `.format` is
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completely ignored. Bumping into all of these issues on daily basis eventually
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led to the creation of this package.
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## Installation Instructions
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## Changes and Improvements
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The main motivation behind this package was the difficulty of using modern
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Python with other common syntax highlighters. They do a good job of the 90% of
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the language, but then fail on the nuances of some very useful, but often
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overlooked features. Function annotations tend to freak out the highlighters in
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various ways. Newly introduced keywords and magic methods are slow to be
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integrated. Another issue is string highlighting, where all raw strings are
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often assumed to be regular expressions or special markup used by `.format` is
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completely ignored. Bumping into all of these issues on daily basis eventually
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led to the creation of this package.
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Overall, the central idea is that it should be easy to notice something odd or
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special about the code. Odd or special doesn't necessarily mean incorrect, but
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certainly worth the explicit attention.

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