Highlight python docstrings as comments (vim syntax highlighting)

Question

Is it possible to modify python.vim (and the corresponding colorscheme file) such that triple-quoted strings right under class and def statements (a.k.a. docstrings) will be

Answer 1

The following worked for me:

syn region pythonDocstring  start=+^\s*[uU]\?[rR]\?"""+ end=+"""+ keepend excludenl contains=pythonEscape,@Spell,pythonDoctest,pythonDocTest2,pythonSpaceError
syn region pythonDocstring  start=+^\s*[uU]\?[rR]\?'''+ end=+'''+ keepend excludenl contains=pythonEscape,@Spell,pythonDoctest,pythonDocTest2,pythonSpaceError

Taken from a modified python.vim from here.