Short constant names highlighted incorrectly

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Hi. 👋

Short constant names seem to be highlighted incorrectly. I got the assumption that the bug might lie in this MagicPython package. What do you guys think? I ran across this while coding a project, and thought that I should do something about it.

• Editor name and version: Visual Studio Code 1.23.1
• Platform: macOS 10.12.6
• Color scheme: Dracula
• MagicPython version: Default in Visual Studio Code 1.23.1

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LONGER = "Yeshh!"
B = "What?"

class SomeClass:
    MEMBER = 1
    MEMBER2 = 2
    A = 3
    ARE = 123
    A85 = "Something"

I would also like to give special mention to short constant names that end in numbers. They don't seem to be highlighted correctly, even though the same length character-based constants do.

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