Highlight Function Calls Sublime Text (python)

Question

I would like to be able to find a way to color the name of function calls in python with a different color. This behavior is found for the C language, but not for Python. that's why I think it should be possible to do it.

Edit:

I'm not looking for the Color Scheme syntax specific, I'm rather looking for the specific lines I would have to add to the Python.tmLanguage.

After trying the suggestion by jdi, I ended up with this:

What I would like would be only array to be colored differently, not the parenthesis, objects calling methods, etc ...

Answer 1

You will need to edit an existing theme, or duplicate one, modify it, and set to that... Then you can add something like this to the bottom:

<dict>
    <key>name</key>
    <string>Function call</string>
    <key>scope</key>
    <string>meta.function-call - punctuation - meta.function-call.arguments</string>
    <key>settings</key>
    <dict>
        <key>foreground</key>
        <string>#FF0000</string>
    </dict>
</dict>

This takes the function-call pattern, and subtracts the subsets for the parenthesis of the call, leaving just the name.

Default themes are located in: Packages/Color Scheme - Default

Answer 2

This is what I have so far it is not perfect but it kinda works:

I took this piece from the C.tmLanguage file that comes bundled in every ST2 and added a few things so that this can be colored differently from some of the default functions in Python defined in the Python.tmLanguage file:

    <dict>
        <key>captures</key>
        <dict>
            <key>1</key>
            <dict>
                <key>name</key>
                <string>punctuation.whitespace.function-call.leading.python</string>
            </dict>
            <key>2</key>
            <dict>
                <key>name</key>
                <string>support.function.any-method.python</string>
            </dict>
            <key>3</key>
            <dict>
                <key>name</key>
                <string>punctuation.definition.parameters.python</string>
            </dict>
        </dict>
        <key>match</key>
        <string>(?x) (?: (?= \s )  (?:(?&lt;=else|new|return) | (?&lt;!\w)) (\s+))?
(\b
    (?!(while|for|do|if|else|switch|catch|enumerate|return|r?iterate|
        __import__|all|abs|any|apply|callable|chr|cmp|coerce|compile|delattr|dir|
        divmod|eval|execfile|filter|getattr|globals|hasattr|hash|hex|id|
        input|intern|isinstance|issubclass|iter|len|locals|map|max|min|oct|
        ord|pow|range|raw_input|reduce|reload|repr|round|setattr|sorted|
        sum|unichr|vars|zip|basestring|bool|buffer|classmethod|complex|dict|enumerate|file|
        float|frozenset|int|list|long|object|open|property|reversed|set|
        slice|staticmethod|str|super|tuple|type|unicode|xrange|
        abs|add|and|call|cmp|coerce|complex|contains|del|delattr|
        delete|delitem|delslice|div|divmod|enter|eq|exit|float|
        floordiv|ge|get|getattr|getattribute|getitem|getslice|gt|
        hash|hex|iadd|iand|idiv|ifloordiv|ilshift|imod|imul|init|
        int|invert|ior|ipow|irshift|isub|iter|itruediv|ixor|le|len|
        long|lshift|lt|mod|mul|ne|neg|new|nonzero|oct|or|pos|pow|
        radd|rand|rdiv|rdivmod|repr|rfloordiv|rlshift|rmod|rmul|ror|
        rpow|rrshift|rshift|rsub|rtruediv|rxor|set|setattr|setitem|
        setslice|str|sub|truediv|unicode|xor
    )\s*\()(?:(?!NS)[A-Za-z_][A-Za-z0-9_]*+\b | :: )++                  # actual name
)
 \s*(\()</string>
        <key>name</key>
        <string>meta.function-call.python</string>
    </dict>

And this is how the output looks like using the Monokai Bright theme, although it is very subtle you can notice how open is formatted different to array .