My attempt at making a Monokai python syntax coloring for nano based on scopatz/nanorc

python_monokaish.nanorc

## Python syntax highlighting rules for Nano
## The colors chosen here may seem strange.
## In my terminal, "yellow" = orange, "magenta" = purple, "brightyellow" = yellow, "cyan" = teal.
## Since there is no actual magenta, I used "brightred" which is the closest I could get.
## Since there is no grey, black is difficult to read in a terminal and setting the background to
##   white is harsh on the eyes, I decided to use teal for comments.

syntax "python" "\.py$"
header "^#!.*/(env +)?python[-0-9._]*( |$)"
magic "Python script"

## definitions
color yellow start="^[[:space:]]*def " end="):" 
color green "^[[:space:]]*def [a-zA-Z_0-9]+" 

## built-in objects
color magenta "\<(None|self|True|False)\>"
## built-in attributes
color brightblue "\<(__builtin__|__dict__|__methods__|__members__|__class__|__bases__|__import__|__name__|__doc__|__self__|__debug__)\>"
## built-in functions
color brightblue "\<(abs|append|apply|buffer|callable|chr|clear|close|closed|cmp|coerce|compile|complex|conjugate|copy|count|delattr|dir|divmod|eval|execfile|exec|extend|fileno|filter|float|flush|get|getattr|globals|has_key|hasattr|hash|hex|id|index|input|insert|int|intern|isatty|isinstance|issubclass|items|keys|len|list|locals|long|map|max|min|mode|name|oct|open|ord|pop|pow|print|range|raw_input|read|readline|readlines|reduce|reload|remove|repr|reverse|round|seek|setattr|slice|softspace|sort|str|tell|truncate|tuple|type|unichr|unicode|update|values|vars|write|writelines|xrange|zip|bool)\>"
## built-in functions that were previously keywords
color brightblue "\<(print|exec)\>([[:space:]]|$)"
## special method names
color brightblue "\<(__abs__|__add__|__and__|__call__|__cmp__|__coerce__|__complex__|__concat__|__contains__|__del__|__delattr__|__delitem__|__delslice__|__div__|__divmod__|__float__|__getattr__|__getitem__|__getslice__|__hash__|__hex__|__init__|__int__|__inv__|__invert__|__len__|__long__|__lshift__|__mod__|__mul__|__neg__|__nonzero__|__oct__|__or__|__pos__|__pow__|__radd__|__rand__|__rcmp__|__rdiv__|__rdivmod__|__repeat__|__repr__|__rlshift__|__rmod__|__rmul__|__ror__|__rpow__|__rrshift__|__rshift__|__rsub__|__rxor__|__setattr__|__setitem__|__setslice__|__str__|__sub__|__xor__|__bool__)\>"
## exception classes
color brightblue "[a-zA-Z_0-9]*(Exception|Error)"
## types
color magenta "[a-zA-Z_0-9]*Type"
## keywords
color brightblue "\<(async|class|def|del|lambda|map)\>"
color brightred "\<(and|as|assert|await|break|continue|elif|else|except|finally|for|from|global|if|import|in|is|not|or|pass|raise|return|try|with|while|yield)\>"

## decorators
color blue "@.*[(]?"
color brightred "@"

## operators
color white "[.:;,]"
color brightred "[+*|=!%@]" "<" ">" "/" "-" "&"

## parentheses
color white "[(){}]" "\[" "\]"

## numbers
icolor magenta "\b(([1-9][0-9]+)|0+)\.[0-9]+j?\b" "\b([1-9][0-9]*[Lj]?)\b" "\b0o?[0-7]*L?\b" "\b0x[1-9a-f][0-9a-f]*L?\b" "\b0b[01]+\b"

## strings
color brightyellow "['][^']*[^\\][']" "[']{3}.*[^\\][']{3}" "''"
color brightyellow "[\"][^\"]*[^\\][\"]" "[\"]{3}.*[^\\][\"]{3}" "\"\""

## comments
color cyan "^#.*|[[:space:]]#.*$"

## block comments.
## Because beginning and end delimiters can't be the same, block comments should start with quadruple double quotes ( """" ) for highlighting to take effect
color cyan start="^[[:space:]][\"]{4}" end="[\"]{3}$" start="^[[:space:]][']{4}" end="[']{3}$" 

## trailing spaces
color ,green "[[:space:]]+$"

## reminders
color brightwhite,yellow "(FIXME|TODO|XXX)"

Based on scopatz/nanorc, subject to GNU GPL v3.