Kate syntax highlighting fails if line of Python code starts with a quotation mark

[abece]

Editor: Kate
Syntax highlighter: Python

If, in the Kate text editor, the first non-whitespace character inside a line of Python code is either " or ' , then the rest of the line is incorrectly highlighted like a comment. The correct behaviour would be to highlight it like a string.

The bug appeared in Ubuntu Raring and was not yet present in Ubuntu Quantal.

An image that shows the behaviour is attached to this bug report.

[abece (abece)]

The bug seems to be fixed in the kate Git repository

sudo wget https://projects.kde.org/projects/kde/applications/kate/repository/revisions/master/raw/part/syntax/data/python.xml -O /usr/share/kde4/apps/katepart/syntax/python.xml

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to review all reported bugs in a timely manner.

I'm setting the status of this bug to 'Incomplete' as it's not seen any activity for some time. If this is still an issue when using a currently maintained release of Ubuntu then please let us know which one(s) otherwise this bug report can be left to expire in approximately 60 days time.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for kate (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]