IDLE won't color code!

[JamesHoward]

On Nov 5, 12:33 pm, "ram.rac... at gmail.com" <ram.rac... at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Please help!
> IDLE color codes only the shell, not the open files! How can I solve
> this?

My first guess is that idle is opening files without the .py
extension.  If that isn't it, what operating system are you using?
What version of python and idle are you using?

James Howard