Python's 8-bit cleanness deprecated?

[Neil Hodgson]

Dale Strickland-Clark:

> Is everything bracketed by -*- on line 1-2 now parsed?

   The '-*-' isn't needed. PEP 263 states:
the first or second line must match the regular expression
"coding[:=]\s*([\w-_.]+)".
   so a first line of
"coding=utf-8"
   should work

   Neil