## Here is an example for Python.
##
syntax "python" "\.py$"
header "^#!.*/(env +)?python( |$)"

## built-in objects
color constant "\b(None|self|True|False)\b"
## built-in attributes
color constant "\b(__bases__|__builtin__|__class__|__debug__|__dict__|__doc__|__file__|__members__|__methods__|__name__|__self__)\b"
## built-in functions
color identifier "\b(abs|apply|callable|chr|cmp|compile|delattr|dir|divmod|eval|exec|execfile|filter|format|getattr|globals|hasattr|hash|help|hex|id|input|intern|isinstance|issubclass|len|locals|max|min|next|oct|open|ord|pow|range|raw_input|reduce|reload|repr|round|setattr|unichr|vars|zip|__import__)\b"
## some standard library methods / attributes
#color identifier "\b(append|clear|close|closed|coerce|conjugate|copy|count|extend|fileno|flush|get|has_key|index|insert|items|read|readline|readlines|isatty|keys|mode|name|pop|remove|reverse|seek|softspace|sort|tell|truncate|write|writelines|update|values)\b"
## special method names
color identifier "\b(__abs__|__add__|__and__|__call__|__cmp__|__coerce__|__complex__|__concat__|__contains__|__del__|__delattr__|__delitem__|__dict__|__delslice__|__div__|__divmod__|__float__|__getattr__|__getitem__|__getslice__|__hash__|__hex__|__init__|__int__|__inv__|__invert__|__len__|__long__|__lshift__|__mod__|__mul__|__neg__|__nonzero__|__oct__|__or__|__pos__|__pow__|__radd__|__rand__|__rcmp__|__rdiv__|__rdivmod__|__repeat__|__repr__|__rlshift__|__rmod__|__rmul__|__ror__|__rpow__|__rrshift__|__rshift__|__rsub__|__rxor__|__setattr__|__setitem__|__setslice__|__str__|__sub__|__xor__)\b"
## exception classes
# color cyan "\b(Exception|StandardError|ArithmeticError|LookupError|EnvironmentError|AssertionError|AttributeError|EOFError|FloatingPointError|IOError|ImportError|IndexError|KeyError|KeyboardInterrupt|MemoryError|NameError|NotImplementedError|OSError|OverflowError|RuntimeError|SyntaxError|SystemError|SystemExit|TypeError|UnboundLocalError|UnicodeError|ValueError|WindowsError|ZeroDivisionError)\b"
## types
color type "\b(basestring|bool|buffer|bytearray|bytes|classmethod|complex|dict|enumerate|file|float|frozenset|int|list|long|map|memoryview|object|property|reversed|set|slice|staticmethod|str|super|tuple|type|unicode|xrange)"
#color type "\b(NoneType|TypeType|IntType|LongType|FloatType|ComplexType|StringType|UnicodeType|BufferType|TupleType|ListType|DictType|FunctionType|LambdaType|CodeType|ClassType|UnboundMethodType|InstanceType|MethodType|BuiltinFunctionType|BuiltinMethodType|ModuleType|FileType|XRangeType|TracebackType|FrameType|SliceType|EllipsisType)\b"
## definitions
color identifier "def [a-zA-Z_0-9]+"
## keywords
color statement "\b(and|as|assert|break|class|continue|def|del|elif|else|except|finally|for|from|global|if|import|in|is|lambda|not|or|pass|print|raise|return|try|while|with|yield)\b"

## decorators
color brightgreen "@.*[(]"

## operators
color statement "[.:;,+*|=!\%@]" "<" ">" "/" "-" "&"

## parentheses
color statement "[(){}]" "\[" "\]"

## numbers
color constant.number "\b[0-9]+\b"

## strings
color constant.string ""(\\.|[^"])*"|'(\\.|[^'])*'"

## brightblacks
color comment "#.*$"

## block brightblacks
color comment start=""""([^"]|$)" end="""""
color comment start="'''([^']|$)" end="'''"