When the following Python file is loaded using emacs -Q and M-x find-file, "1func" is font-locked as a function name although it is not a valid function name. #+begin_src python def 1func(): pass #+end_src Attached is my proposal to fix this issue. In GNU Emacs 29.0.50 (build 4, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) of 2022-05-21 built on ubuntu Repository revision: 208102fa470e3417320062cdb48a9967d80bf092 Repository branch: master System Description: Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Configured using: 'configure --without-x --with-gnutls=ifavailable' Configured features: ACL LIBXML2 MODULES NOTIFY INOTIFY PDUMPER SECCOMP SOUND SQLITE3 THREADS XIM ZLIB Important settings: value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8 locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix Major mode: Python Minor modes in effect: tooltip-mode: t global-eldoc-mode: t eldoc-mode: t show-paren-mode: t electric-indent-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t Load-path shadows: None found. Features: (shadow sort mail-extr emacsbug message mailcap yank-media rmc puny dired dired-loaddefs rfc822 mml mml-sec password-cache epa derived epg rfc6068 epg-config gnus-util text-property-search time-date mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util mail-prsvr mail-utils wombat-theme manoj-dark-theme dichromacy-theme cus-theme cus-edit pp cus-start cus-load wid-edit python json map comint regexp-opt ring cl-loaddefs cl-lib ansi-color seq term/screen term/xterm xterm gv subr-x byte-opt bytecomp byte-compile cconv iso-transl tooltip eldoc paren electric uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type elisp-mode tabulated-list replace newcomment text-mode lisp-mode prog-mode register page tab-bar menu-bar rfn-eshadow isearch easymenu timer select mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax font-core term/tty-colors frame minibuffer nadvice simple cl-generic cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese eucjp-ms cp51932 hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese composite emoji-zwj charscript charprop case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help abbrev obarray oclosure cl-preloaded button loaddefs faces cus-face macroexp files window text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget keymap hashtable-print-readable backquote threads inotify multi-tty make-network-process emacs) Memory information: ((conses 16 84231 7303) (symbols 48 8723 1) (strings 32 23861 1652) (string-bytes 1 712652) (vectors 16 12013) (vector-slots 8 139506 3457) (floats 8 51 673) (intervals 56 316 4) (buffers 992 13))