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Vaibhav Mishra
Vaibhav Mishra

Reputation: 12102

Pycharm utils.py not getting syntax highlight

I have several django projects and several different files with name utils.py, however pycharm treats them as simple .txt files with no syntax highlighting or any other kind of parsing, how can I fix this?

Upvotes: 72

Views: 36528

Answers (6)

CrazyCoder
CrazyCoder

Reputation: 401877

Please see File | Settings (Preferences on Mac) | Editor | File Types.

Look for your file name mapped to the Text type or to the Auto-detect file type by content type.

Remove the incorrect mapping and it will fix the issue.

If you still can't find the wrong mapping in the IDE settings, locate the options/filetypes.xml file in the Configuration directory. Close the IDE and either edit this file to remove the incorrect mapping or delete this file to reset all the file types to the defaults.

text files

Upvotes: 205

Gulzar
Gulzar

Reputation: 27896

For me, the file somehow forgot its type. This can be overridden by

Right click the file name --> Override File Type --> Select file type.

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Upvotes: 0

Ssali Jonathan
Ssali Jonathan

Reputation: 97

I actually solved this by going to the Project section , and then clicking Override File Type by right clicking on the specific file. Then I selected the type of the file from the list of available file types.

That worked

Upvotes: 0

avlnx
avlnx

Reputation: 676

In my case I had to right click the file in question (a django migration) and select Mark as Python. I probably clicked Mark as Plain Text before by mistake.

Upvotes: 0

Koyasha
Koyasha

Reputation: 6797

FYI, a quick action to reassociate a file's type will be available in the context menu of the Project tool window in IntelliJ IDEA 2021.2 (EAPs should be available publicly around May 2021).

Upvotes: 2

Chris
Chris

Reputation: 31

As CrazyCoder answered, my file also landed in an unintended association. In my case it was "Auto-detect file type by content". You can just try to add your file to the desired file type (e.g. Python) and PyCharm will automatically try to move the association.

Upvotes: 3

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