Roundup Robot added the comment:
New changeset 08e03dfb7dab by Robert Collins in branch '2.7':
Issue #24531: Document that encoding lines cannot follow non-comment lines.
https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/08e03dfb7dab
New changeset ab75b7ff4dfe by Robert Collins in branch '3.4':
Issue #24531:
Robert Collins added the comment:
Thanks, applied across the board; I had to tweak it a little on 2.7.
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Terry J. Reedy added the comment:
I moved the existing comment-only sentence to the first paragraph, where I
strongly believe it belongs, and added a second about the first.
(PS I opened #24563 to address the xxx visible in the patch.)
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New submission from Jakub Wilk:
If the encoding is declared on the second line, the first line must not contain
anything except comments. However, this fact is not documented.
The Python Language reference says only that the encoding declaration must
appear on a line of its own;
and PEP 263
R. David Murray added the comment:
What docs are you looking at?
https://docs.python.org/3/reference/lexical_analysis.html#encoding-declarations?
I suspect the author thought that If a comment in the first or second
line... implied both lines needed to be comments, but I agree that the
Jakub Wilk added the comment:
Right, I meant
https://docs.python.org/3/reference/lexical_analysis.html#encoding-declarations.
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