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Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> writes:

> I think this might have value, especially if to could bounce back and forth
> between both schemes. Is anyone aware of tools like this for Python? Bonus
> points for pointers to an Emacs implementation.

There has been a recent thread on some emacs group about this. Dunno how
far it has gone wrt Python support, but the following mode appeared in
MELPA archives in the last couple of days:

  https://github.com/ankurdave/color-identifiers-mode

hth, ciao, lele.
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