Syntax Highlighting in Terminal for Python?

Question

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

Answer 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.

Answer 2

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

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

Answer 3

http://bpython-interpreter.org/screenshots/