Syntax highlighting does not appear correct with triple quoted strings

[ecomber]

information_header = f"""Observed Body: {observed_body}
Observation time {observation_time} UTC
Calculation time {str(datetime.datetime.now(ZoneInfo('UTC')))} UTC
"""
The lines following the above code are highlighted as commented out, but it 'compiles' and runs OK.

[mmccthomas]

You have embedded it in an f string. The 3.10 version of Python, used in current Pythonista, does not allow quote marks of same type in the string. , so f””” is invalid.

[salabim]

No, that's not the problem. The code is fine, even for Python 3.10. The highlighting is wrong. I have seen that many times already. Just ignore the highlighting, that's my advice.
Does anyone have an idea when we can expect a new version of Pythonista?

[ecomber]

Yes, that's my point, it's the syntax highlighting that is the problem although I am a bit surprised that a triple-quoted f-string is allowed.
It's useful for legibility and for including newline chars.

It's not practical to simply ignore it when all the code following it appears commented out.

[o-murphy]

No, that's not the problem. The code is fine, even for Python 3.10. The highlighting is wrong. I have seen that many times already. Just ignore the highlighting, that's my advice. Does anyone have an idea when we can expect a new version of Pythonista?

the Pythonista TestFlight was tested with py3.12 or even py3.13 as I remember, was few issues but not much, so maybe there it will be released

[mmccthomas]

That’s fair enough. I have never seen triple quoted strings in an f-string.
I’m not surprised that’s the highlighting has trouble.
If that’s done to break a very long f- string, then concatenation smaller strings might be more obvious?
information_header =‘“”.join([ f"Observed Body: {observed_body}”,
f”Observation time {observation_time} UTC”,
f”Calculation time {str(datetime.datetime.now(ZoneInfo('UTC')))} UTC”]

I’d love a new version too. Would love scipy included!

[RichardPotthoff]

The problem seems to be only with tripple double quotes f""". The syntax highlighting works as expected with tripple single quotes f''' in Pythonista 3:

information_header = f'''Observed Body: {observed_body}
Observation time {observation_time} UTC
Calculation time {str(datetime.datetime.now(ZoneInfo('UTC')))} UTC
'''

I sometimes use Pythons automatic concatenation of strings for multi-line strings, because that gives me more control over the indentation levels, and you can mix f and r and plain strings (but not b strings) :

information_header2 = (f'Observed Body: {observed_body}'                '\n'
                       f'Observation time {observation_time} UTC'       '\n'
                       f'Calculation time {str(datetime.datetime.now(ZoneInfo("UTC")))} UTC' '\n'
                      )

The parentheses are necessary tor this to work.

[o-murphy]

same issue

[RichardPotthoff]

This is how the syntax highlighting looks on my iPad in Pythonista 3.4:

The problem only starts with the line containing f""".

Here is the output, showing that the program execution is not affected:

Observed Body: Saturn
Observation time 2026-02-27 14:30:30.691572+00:00 UTC
Calculation time 2026-02-27 14:30:30.691590+00:00 UTC

Observed Body: Saturn
Observation time 2026-02-27 14:30:30.691572+00:00 UTC
Calculation time 2026-02-27 14:30:30.691626+00:00 UTC

Observed Body: Saturn
Observation time 2026-02-27 14:30:30.691572+00:00 UTC
Calculation time 2026-02-27 14:30:30.692832+00:00 UTC