Syntax Highlighting in Terminal for Python?

Question

Is there a way to turn on python syntax highlighting for Terminal.app on Mac OS X?

Solution 1

If you just want to highlight sources you dump into the terminal a la cat try excellent pygments. It actually supports a lot of languages. Run with

pygmentize source.py

If instead you were talking about editing files with syntax highlighting inside a mac terminal, this really depends on the editor.

• for vi or vim you want at least these option in ~/.vimrc

  syntax on
  

• emacs works right out of the box

• don't ask me about nano.

Solution 2

You can try ptpython in github, simply

pip install ptpython

and use it with ptpython.

Solution 3

Try ipython. It highlights syntax and much more.
I haven't tried it on Mac but looks like it must work:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/726449/installing-ipython-with-readline-on-the-mac

Another option is WxPython and pycrust (which works without Terminal.app :( )

Comments

[Lawrence Velázquez]

Do you mean inside the Python read-eval-print interpreter?

[user1686]

include "/usr/share/nano/python.nanorc" - quite good.