How can I get VS's python syntax highlighting in VS code?

Question

It seems like VS Community with python tools has a better syntax highlighting than VS Code with \"Python\" by Don Jayamanne. As you can see in the picture attached, VS Community

Answer 1

Looks like this issue has been bouncing around between maintainers of VSCode, MagicPython, and the Python extension

A quick workaround is to simply override your color theme as instructed here. For example, if you are using Default Dark+ color theme, you can add this to settings.json:

"editor.tokenColorCustomizations": {
    "textMateRules": [
      {
        "scope": "meta.function-call.generic.python",
        "settings": {
          "foreground": "#DCDCAA"
        }
      }
    ]
  },

Now callables are highlighted correctly as seen below: