Darcula Theme from PyCharm for VS Code

Fork of Darcula PyCharm Theme with several fixes and support for semantic highlighting, including Python 3.10 Structural Pattern Matching (match: case: syntax), docstring highlighting and more.

• Semantic highlighting
• Linting highlighting
• Optimized for Python + support for many popular languages
• Support for MagicPython RegEx highlighting (install separately)
• Support for Python Sphinx Highlighter (install separately)
• Jinja & Django Template support (See Template Support)
• Overridable base highlight (See Customization)
• File status colors

Semantic Highlighting

From Semantic Highlighting Overview

Semantic highlighting enriches the syntax coloring based on symbol information from a language service that has the full understanding of the project.

Enabling semantic highlighting

1. Press ⌘ ⇧ P

2. Search settings.json & Open

3. Paste the following

       "editor.semanticTokenColorCustomizations.enabled": true,

Semantic Highlight Guide

Linting highlighting

To better match PyCharm highlighting, put this in settings.json:

    "python.analysis.diagnosticSeverityOverrides": {
        "reportUndefinedVariable": "error",
        "reportImportCycles": "error",
        "reportMissingImports": "error",
        "reportMissingModuleSource": "error",
    },
    "python.linting.flake8CategorySeverity.F": "Warning",
    "python.linting.flake8CategorySeverity.E": "Information",
    "python.linting.flake8CategorySeverity.W": "Information",
    "python.linting.mypyCategorySeverity.note": "Information",
    "python.linting.mypyCategorySeverity.error": "Information",
    "python.linting.pycodestyleCategorySeverity.E": "Information",

Then adjust to your liking.

Colours match with PyCharm according to scheme:

PyCharm	VSCode
Error	Error
Warning	Warning
Weak Warning	Information

Template Support

Use one of these plugins:

• Jinja plugin
• Better Jinja
• Django plugin
• Django Template plugin

Fils Status Colors

Until microsoft/vscode#119023 is resolved, I'd recommend to add this to settings.json

    "problems.decorations.enabled": false,

Otherwise, VSCode will override file color with red if it has any problems. In the meanwhile, you can use Problems panel instead.

Syntax Customization

To change the base text color, use a snippet like this in your settings.json

    "editor.tokenColorCustomizations": {
        "[PyCharm Darcula Theme]": { // Targets dark GUI
            "textMateRules": [
                {
                    "name": "Foreground base syntax",
                    "scope": [
                        "text", // For markup, config, etc.
                        "source", // For code
                    ],
                    "settings": {
                        "foreground": "#FF0000" // Bright red
                    },
                },
            ]
        },
    },

Known issues and inconsistencies

Limitations of current syntax scopes in VSCode

• self and cls parameters highlighted as any function arguments in any positions
• mcs is not highlighted
• self and cls are highlighted even when overwritten
• in comments containing codetags (# TODO ...) only codetags themselves are highlighted, as opposed to PyCharm where the whole line is highlighted
• methods decorated with @property highlighted as properties instead of functions (which might be considered improvement)
• in typehints enclosed in string literal, only resolved names are highlighted, as source, as opposed to PyCharm, where everything, including string literals highlighted as source
• __class__ attribute highlighted as magic, as opposed to PyCharm when it highlighted as source (though I have no idea why pycharm does so in the first place)

Bugs

• __magic_methods__ decorated with functools.lru_cache (potentially some other decorators as well) are highlighted as functions microsoft/pylance-release#2816