Dear Stardiviner, I used the "scimax" configuration. Scimax's maintainer, John Kitchin, helped me out to find the root cause of the problem, i.e. the following addition to " python-font-lock-keywords": (setq python-font-lock-keywords (append python-font-lock-keywords '(;; this is the full string. ;; group 1 is the quote type and a closing quote is matched ;; group 2 is the string part ( ;; "f\\(['\"]\\{1,3\\}\\)\\([^\\1]+?\\)\\1" "f\\(['\"]\\{1,3\\}\\)\\(.+?\\)\\1" ;; these are the {keywords} ("{[^}]*?}" ;; Pre-match form (progn (goto-char (match-beginning 0)) (match-end 0)) ;; Post-match form (goto-char (match-end 0)) ;; face for this match (0 font-lock-variable-name-face t)))))) Commenting out this code snippet, the fontfying / HTML-export problem goes away. Cheers, sebastian On Tue, Nov 3, 2020 at 6:50 AM stardiviner wrote: > I have same problem sometimes in different babel languages. > I would like to know what caused this problem too. > Can you send me a message after you solved problem? Thanks in advance. :) > smile > > [stardiviner] GPG key ID: 47C32433 > IRC(freeenode): stardiviner Twitter: @numbchild > Key fingerprint = 9BAA 92BC CDDD B9EF 3B36 CB99 B8C4 B8E5 47C3 2433 > Blog: http://stardiviner.github.io/ > > > On Mon, Nov 2, 2020 at 2:26 AM Sebastian Gimeno > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I am using emacs 27.1 and org-plus-contrib 20201026. >> >> I am having problems with the fontification of python and ipython source >> blocks when the code contains curly brackets "{}" (other course blocks are >> ok). For instance, the following snippet >> >> #+BEGIN_SRC python :results drawer >> import matplotlib.pyplot as plt >> plt.plot([1,2,3]) >> plt.show() >> a=1 >> print("a={}".format{a}) >> #+END_SRC >> >> does not fontify correctly in either python or ipython source blocks. >> >> As a consequence, when exporting the org file to HTML (C-c C-e h h), it >> fails with the following message: >> >> font-lock-fontify-keywords-region: Invalid function: # >> >> If changing the code snippet to: >> >> #+BEGIN_SRC python :results drawer >> import matplotlib.pyplot as plt >> plt.plot([1,2,3]) >> plt.show() >> a=1 >> print("a=%s" % a) >> #+END_SRC >> >> the block fontifies and the file is exported to HTML correctly. >> >> Can you reproduce this behaviour? >> >> Many thanks in advance! >> >