Forums

Hi,

When editing files is it possible to switch to a dark theme?

Thanks

Phil

We don't have an official way to do that, but there is a hack that can get it working for a specific editing session. When you load the file, press control-comma, and a popup will appear on the right. There you can select between various editor themes.

(It's not official yet because we don't have a way to make it persist between editor sessions right now -- that's proving harder to do than one might expect.)

It will be great.. cuz white color eat my eyes x_x

Any updates here? My eyes burn too.... would it make sense to have a user-specific setting that applies to all their sessions?

No updates.

So, nice thanks

For those coming here from Google,

There is a Google Chrome add on here:

Python Anywhere Dark Editor

Hello PA team! Any updates on dark mode?

Thanks a lot

@tucapel -- we haven't worked on that recently but I bumped up our ticket regarding this issue on your behalf. You can change the theme using Ace editor settings (to enter them press Ctrl-, (control + comma) in the editor), but unfortunately, you can't save them.

Wow guys, this is sad. Forget the editor, how do you not have a site-wide dark theme? I don't think I would have even signed up for pythonanywhere if had not already been using... darkreader.org For everyone frustrated by this, just use this awesome plugin on every site and 'save your eyes'. 'PythonAnywhere Dark Editor' featured above is great and offers better syntax highlighting than the default theme on PA, but darkreader fixes the rest of the site.

Thanks for sharing your experience!