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Fix error about "-*-" being mandatory in coding cookies.

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Georg Brandl 2008-11-22 10:08:50 +00:00
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@ -410,9 +410,9 @@ either the first or second line of the source file::
The syntax is inspired by Emacs's notation for specifying variables local to a
file. Emacs supports many different variables, but Python only supports
'coding'. The ``-*-`` symbols indicate that the comment is special; within
them, you must supply the name ``coding`` and the name of your chosen encoding,
separated by ``':'``.
'coding'. The ``-*-`` symbols indicate to Emacs that the comment is special;
they have no significance to Python but are a convention. Python looks for
``coding: name`` or ``coding=name`` in the comment.
If you don't include such a comment, the default encoding used will be ASCII.
Versions of Python before 2.4 were Euro-centric and assumed Latin-1 as a default