Add syntax highlighting for Python interpreter #14578

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opened 2026-01-31 04:14:03 +00:00 by claunia · 2 comments
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Originally created by @Cyfine on GitHub (Jul 19, 2021).

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I am recently using python, and sometimes I would like to use the terminal to run some python scripts. It would be handy and user-friendly if the Windows Terminal could support python syntax highlighting in the terminal interpreter mode.

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@skyline75489 commented on GitHub (Jul 19, 2021):

Maybe https://ipython.org/ is what you want?

@skyline75489 commented on GitHub (Jul 19, 2021): Maybe https://ipython.org/ is what you want?
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@zadjii-msft commented on GitHub (Jul 19, 2021):

Yea, this isn't something that the Terminal can do automatically - this is something that python would specifically have to do itself. This is something that's better requested on their feature tracker (wherever that may be).

@zadjii-msft commented on GitHub (Jul 19, 2021): Yea, this isn't something that the Terminal can do automatically - this is something that python would specifically have to do itself. This is something that's better requested on their feature tracker (wherever that may be).
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Reference: starred/terminal#14578