[issue29226] Comment generates syntax error

[Ammar Askar]

Ammar Askar added the comment:

This is because the "coding:" in a comment is a special syntax used to define the encoding of the file. The only documentation I could find for it on the official docs is a brief mention here: https://docs.python.org/3/howto/unicode.html#the-string-type

More details can be found on the PEP for it:
https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0263/

The SyntaxError itself is not a bug, though I think the documentation for this feature is certainly a little sparse.

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nosy: +ammar2
resolution:  -> not a bug
stage:  -> resolved
status: open -> closed

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