Styling text in StyledTextCtrl

The StyledTextCtrl class is an advanced text-editing component provided by the wx.stc module. This class is a wx wrapper around the Scintilla code editor control. This control is primarily geared toward editing source code files. It provides a large set of features for enhanced code-editing support. In this recipe, we will look at how to set up syntax highlighting for Python source code files using StyledTextCtrl.

How to do it…

Perform the following steps:

1. This recipe will be split into two classes. Starting here with a base class to set up some programming language-independent settings on StyledTextCtrl. Take a look at the following code:

   import wx
   import wx.stc as stc
   import keyword
   
   class CodeEditorBase(stc.StyledTextCtrl):
       def __init__(self, parent):
           super(CodeEditorBase, self).__init__(parent)
   
           # Attributes
           font = wx.Font(10, wx.FONTFAMILY_MODERN,
                              wx.FONTSTYLE_NORMAL,
                              wx.FONTWEIGHT_NORMAL...