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Issue #24531: Document that encoding lines cannot follow non-comment lines.
Patch from Terry Reedy
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@ -81,7 +81,9 @@ Encoding declarations
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If a comment in the first or second line of the Python script matches the
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regular expression ``coding[=:]\s*([-\w.]+)``, this comment is processed as an
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encoding declaration; the first group of this expression names the encoding of
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the source code file. The recommended forms of this expression are ::
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the source code file. The encoding declaration must appear on a line of its
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own. If it is the second line, the first line must also be a comment-only line.
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The recommended forms of an encoding expression are ::
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# -*- coding: <encoding-name> -*-
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@ -98,7 +100,7 @@ among others, by Microsoft's :program:`notepad`).
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If an encoding is declared, the encoding name must be recognized by Python. The
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encoding is used for all lexical analysis, including string literals, comments
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and identifiers. The encoding declaration must appear on a line of its own.
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and identifiers.
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.. XXX there should be a list of supported encodings.
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