diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 329133aad97c5c832d46ca9aa1c760685a1337b5..020bff58d7233210f54f7db7324752df2b9138ef 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 CVS code -
+- doc/syntax/python.nanorc:
+	- Improve string highlighting regexes. (Mike Frysinger)
 
 GNU nano 2.0.2 - 2006.12.20
 - General:
diff --git a/doc/syntax/python.nanorc b/doc/syntax/python.nanorc
index 51f19f1bb4a1a78e20904c39309d53aba16e2d8f..fc0907acba0913a1122e2d118c9b6aeda20f67ea 100644
--- a/doc/syntax/python.nanorc
+++ b/doc/syntax/python.nanorc
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 syntax "python" "\.py$"
 icolor brightblue "def [0-9A-Z_]+"
 color brightcyan "\<(and|assert|break|class|continue|def|del|elif|else|except|exec|finally|for|from|global|if|import|in|is|lambda|map|not|or|pass|print|raise|return|try|while)\>"
-color brightgreen "["'].*[^\\]["']" "["']{3}.*[^\\]["']{3}"
+color brightgreen "['][^']*[^\\][']" "[']{3}.*[^\\][']{3}"
+color brightgreen "["][^"]*[^\\]["]" "["]{3}.*[^\\]["]{3}"
 color brightgreen start=""""[^"]" end=""""" start="'''[^']" end="'''"
 color brightred "#.*$"