diff --git a/cmd/micro/runtime.go b/cmd/micro/runtime.go
index 73b88d92..792d7274 100644
--- a/cmd/micro/runtime.go
+++ b/cmd/micro/runtime.go
@@ -91,6 +91,7 @@
 // runtime/syntax/privoxy-filter.micro
 // runtime/syntax/puppet.micro
 // runtime/syntax/python2.micro
+// runtime/syntax/python3.micro
 // runtime/syntax/r.micro
 // runtime/syntax/reST.micro
 // runtime/syntax/rpmspec.micro
@@ -2000,6 +2001,26 @@ func runtimeSyntaxPython2Micro() (*asset, error) {
 	return a, nil
 }
 
+var _runtimeSyntaxPython3Micro = 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+
+func runtimeSyntaxPython3MicroBytes() ([]byte, error) {
+	return bindataRead(
+		_runtimeSyntaxPython3Micro,
+		"runtime/syntax/python3.micro",
+	)
+}
+
+func runtimeSyntaxPython3Micro() (*asset, error) {
+	bytes, err := runtimeSyntaxPython3MicroBytes()
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+
+	info := bindataFileInfo{name: "runtime/syntax/python3.micro", size: 0, mode: os.FileMode(0), modTime: time.Unix(0, 0)}
+	a := &asset{bytes: bytes, info: info}
+	return a, nil
+}
+
 var _runtimeSyntaxRMicro = []byte("\x1f\x8b\x08\x00\x00\x09\x6e\x88\x00\xff\x54\xce\xb1\x6a\xc3\x40\x0c\xc6\xf1\xfd\x9e\xe2\xb8\x64\x48\x3a\xe4\x1d\x3c\xa4\x50\x30\x37\xb8\xcd\x66\x30\xf2\x55\x6e\x8e\x9e\xa5\xa0\x93\xa9\x0b\x7a\xf8\x92\xc6\x4b\x26\xfd\xa6\xbf\xbe\x9d\xef\x7c\xe5\x45\x12\xfa\xc4\x9f\xe8\x5c\xfd\x25\x85\xd5\x07\x09\x3e\xf4\xa7\x83\x58\x77\xdc\x07\xe7\x12\x17\x16\x5f\x15\x14\x67\x24\xf5\xa1\x1f\x0f\xa3\x20\x7c\x1b\x96\x8a\x36\xb1\xd8\xb4\x50\xd2\xcc\x64\x79\xb2\x4c\x46\xb8\xaa\x09\xde\x10\xee\x47\x17\x21\xfb\xb9\xe6\x82\xc7\x7e\x0c\x5b\x2e\x31\x55\x85\xad\xf6\xd1\x5d\xce\xf6\xda\xb4\xef\x67\x8b\x97\xb6\xb5\x37\x9a\x2c\x42\xb4\xd8\x58\x6c\x86\x4c\x8a\x5f\x28\xc3\xdd\x82\x50\xfe\x91\x78\xbe\x15\x5c\x1f\xbe\x82\x40\x52\x94\xe1\xe9\xc1\xfc\x58\xbb\x3b\xbd\xec\x83\x77\x7f\x01\x00\x00\xff\xff\xd2\xcf\x96\x95\xee\x00\x00\x00")
 
 func runtimeSyntaxRMicroBytes() ([]byte, error) {
@@ -2583,6 +2604,7 @@ var _bindata = map[string]func() (*asset, error){
 	"runtime/syntax/privoxy-filter.micro": runtimeSyntaxPrivoxyFilterMicro,
 	"runtime/syntax/puppet.micro": runtimeSyntaxPuppetMicro,
 	"runtime/syntax/python2.micro": runtimeSyntaxPython2Micro,
+	"runtime/syntax/python3.micro": runtimeSyntaxPython3Micro,
 	"runtime/syntax/r.micro": runtimeSyntaxRMicro,
 	"runtime/syntax/reST.micro": runtimeSyntaxRestMicro,
 	"runtime/syntax/rpmspec.micro": runtimeSyntaxRpmspecMicro,
@@ -2750,6 +2772,7 @@ var _bintree = &bintree{nil, map[string]*bintree{
 			"privoxy-filter.micro": &bintree{runtimeSyntaxPrivoxyFilterMicro, map[string]*bintree{}},
 			"puppet.micro": &bintree{runtimeSyntaxPuppetMicro, map[string]*bintree{}},
 			"python2.micro": &bintree{runtimeSyntaxPython2Micro, map[string]*bintree{}},
+			"python3.micro": &bintree{runtimeSyntaxPython3Micro, map[string]*bintree{}},
 			"r.micro": &bintree{runtimeSyntaxRMicro, map[string]*bintree{}},
 			"reST.micro": &bintree{runtimeSyntaxRestMicro, map[string]*bintree{}},
 			"rpmspec.micro": &bintree{runtimeSyntaxRpmspecMicro, map[string]*bintree{}},
diff --git a/runtime/syntax/python3.micro b/runtime/syntax/python3.micro
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..39e45ba3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/runtime/syntax/python3.micro
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+## Here is an example for Python.
+##
+syntax "python3" "\.py$"
+header "^#!.*/(env +)?python3$"
+
+## built-in objects
+color constant "\b(None|self|True|False)\b"
+## built-in attributes
+color constant "\b(__bases__|__builtin__|__class__|__debug__|__dict__|__doc__|__file__|__members__|__methods__|__name__|__self__)\b"
+## built-in functions
+color identifier "\b(abs|all|any|ascii|bin|callable|chr|compile|delattr|dir|divmod|eval|exec|format|getattr|globals|hasattr|hash|help|hex|id|input|isinstance|issubclass|iter|len|locals|max|min|next|oct|open|ord|pow|print|repr|round|setattr|sorted|sum|vars|__import__)\b"
+## some standard library methods / attributes
+#color identifier "\b(append|clear|close|closed|coerce|conjugate|copy|count|extend|fileno|flush|get|has_key|index|insert|items|read|readline|readlines|isatty|keys|mode|name|pop|remove|reverse|seek|softspace|sort|tell|truncate|write|writelines|update|values)\b"
+## special method names
+color identifier "\b(__abs__|__add__|__and__|__call__|__cmp__|__coerce__|__complex__|__concat__|__contains__|__del__|__delattr__|__delitem__|__delslice__|__div__|__divmod__|__float__|__getattr__|__getitem__|__getslice__|__hash__|__hex__|__init__|__int__|__inv__|__invert__|__len__|__dict__|__long__|__lshift__|__mod__|__mul__|__neg__|__next__|__nonzero__|__oct__|__or__|__pos__|__pow__|__radd__|__rand__|__rcmp__|__rdiv__|__rdivmod__|__repeat__|__repr__|__rlshift__|__rmod__|__rmul__|__ror__|__rpow__|__rrshift__|__rshift__|__rsub__|__rxor__|__setattr__|__setitem__|__setslice__|__str__|__sub__|__xor__)\b"
+## exception classes
+# color cyan "\b(Exception|StandardError|ArithmeticError|LookupError|EnvironmentError|AssertionError|AttributeError|EOFError|FloatingPointError|IOError|ImportError|IndexError|KeyError|KeyboardInterrupt|MemoryError|NameError|NotImplementedError|OSError|OverflowError|RuntimeError|SyntaxError|SystemError|SystemExit|TypeError|UnboundLocalError|UnicodeError|ValueError|WindowsError|ZeroDivisionError)\b"
+## types
+color type "\b(bool|bytearray|bytes|classmethod|complex|dict|enumerate|filter|float|frozenset|int|list|map|memoryview|object|property|range|reversed|set|slice|staticmethod|str|super|tuple|type|zip)"
+#color type "\b(NoneType|TypeType|IntType|LongType|FloatType|ComplexType|StringType|UnicodeType|BufferType|TupleType|ListType|DictType|FunctionType|LambdaType|CodeType|ClassType|UnboundMethodType|InstanceType|MethodType|BuiltinFunctionType|BuiltinMethodType|ModuleType|FileType|TracebackType|FrameType|SliceType|EllipsisType)\b"
+## definitions
+color identifier "def [a-zA-Z_0-9]+" 
+## keywords
+color statement "\b(and|as|assert|break|class|continue|def|del|elif|else|except|finally|for|from|global|if|import|in|is|lambda|nonlocal|not|or|pass|raise|return|try|while|with|yield)\b" 
+
+## decorators
+color brightgreen "@.*[(]"
+
+## operators
+color statement "[.:;,+*|=!\%@]" "<" ">" "/" "-" "&"
+
+## parentheses
+color statement "[(){}]" "\[" "\]"
+
+## numbers
+color constant.number "\b[0-9]+\b"
+
+## strings
+color constant.string ""(\\.|[^"])*"|'(\\.|[^'])*'"
+
+## brightblacks
+color comment "#.*$"
+
+## block brightblacks
+color comment start=""""([^"]|$)" end="""""
+color comment start="'''([^']|$)" end="'''"