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 wording is not clear.
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