Python color syntax highlighting

If you open python file first time on your terminal, it will be plain black color text. To enable the color highlighting follow below steps -

• open the file - vi myProg.py
• hit esc (escape) - : syntax on

It will enable the color highlighting, which will be helpful to recognize any syntactical error.

To enable the highlighting permanent follow below steps -

• open the file - vi ~/.vimrc
• hit i > it will enable the insert mode
• type - syntax on
• hit esc (escape) - :wq

open the python file in vi and check the syntax.