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According to the editing help:

You can use either one of the supported prettify language codes, like lang-cpp or lang-sql, or you can specify a tag, and the syntax highlighting language associated with this tag will be used:

<!-- language: c# -->

    public static bool IsAwesome { get { return true; } }

However, in this revision history, <!-- language: python --> fails, yet <!-- language: lang-py --> works. is clearly a valid tag, so I'd expect both to work

This also would explain why questions tagged do not automatically use python syntax highlighting

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  • This is a duplicate. I can feel it. – Cole Johnson Aug 16 '13 at 10:13
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    python is associated with the default highlighter, not lang-py, so this behaviour is expected. Now, I don't know why python isn't associated with the lang-py highlighter, so that might be unintentional. – Tim Stone Aug 16 '13 at 14:17
  • ...Or not, Jeff seems to classify it as a "webby language", which means it gets the default highlighter. – Tim Stone Aug 16 '13 at 14:23
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    @TimStone: I don't think I've seen a single python question with an HTML block in. – Eric Aug 16 '13 at 14:37
  • Yeah, you might be able to make a case for having the associated highlighter changed. – Tim Stone Aug 16 '13 at 14:41
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    Python is so not a webby language. Jeff's assertion is way off the mark there. – Martijn Pieters Aug 16 '13 at 14:59
  • Hey, I can change that! Interesting. But is there another problem that changing it away from the default causes? The whole syntax highlighting system is hopelessly broken. – Ry- Aug 16 '13 at 15:08
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    @minitech: I am willing to find out! Change it, change it NAUOW! – Martijn Pieters Aug 16 '13 at 15:20
  • @MartijnPieters: Well, here we go! – Ry- Aug 16 '13 at 15:22
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    This is certainly not a dupe of the css-related one (stating that there css is used together with either html or javascript and therefore shouldn't cause confusion) - what other tags are usually used together with python that justify not having it default to lang-py? – Tobias Kienzler Aug 19 '13 at 6:58
  • @TobiasKienzler: Python-2.7, python-3.x, numpy, tkinter, to name but a few. – Martijn Pieters Aug 19 '13 at 8:56
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    @MartijnPieters ... "that justify not having it default to lang-py"? – Tobias Kienzler Aug 19 '13 at 8:59
  • @TobiasKienzler: The tags django, flask, zope, plone, web.py, and wsgi perhaps. – Martijn Pieters Aug 19 '13 at 9:00
  • @MartijnPieters I didn't exhaustively search, but on a quick glimpse I could not spot any post containing non-python code under these tags which actually "deserves" the tag python – Tobias Kienzler Aug 19 '13 at 9:12
  • Exactly; I am puzzled by why Jeff thought Python was a webby language deserving of not having the lang-py language highlighter applied by default. – Martijn Pieters Aug 19 '13 at 9:24
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I changed it, as Python is really not a “web language”.

Let’s see what sort of horrible consequences arise… :(

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