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:

Answer 2

Try MagicPython systax highlighter from extensions.

Answer 3

I've tried some workarounds, but the one that worked for me was installing: Python extension for Visual Studio Code

It comes with much more than you need, but solves the issue without patchwork.

VS Code About: Version: 1.52.1 (system setup)

settings.json:

{
    "window.zoomLevel": 0,
    "workbench.editorAssociations": [
        {
            "viewType": "jupyter.notebook.ipynb",
            "filenamePattern": "*.ipynb"
        }
    ],
    "git.ignoreMissingGitWarning": true,
    "workbench.colorTheme": "Default Dark+",
    "editor.suggestSelection": "first",
    "vsintellicode.modify.editor.suggestSelection": "automaticallyOverrodeDefaultValue",
    "python.languageServer": "Microsoft",
}

Answer 4

What did the trick for me, was to keep the Window: Auto Detect Color Scheme disabled. Attaching a picture of this checkbox in my answer:

Answer 5

I ran into the same issue and some VS Code themes are not supporting syntax highlighting atleast for me. I tried with Ruby and Python and the theme I was using was Dark(Visual Studio).

Changing to Dark+ (Default Dark) did the trick for me.

Goto Preferences -> Color Themes and choose Dark+(Default Dark) or something similar.

Hope it helps.

Answer 6

I had problems with syntax highlighting with python in vs code and the solution was that my file name did not end with ".py"