[issue29226] Comment generates syntax error

2017-01-10 Thread Simon Grantham
Simon Grantham added the comment: My googling skills are a bit amiss too. I searched for some kind of encoding pragma before reporting. Perhaps just a footnote in the basic documentation of a python comment is the easiest solution. Simon On 1/10/2017 12:58 PM, Ammar Askar wrote: > Am

[issue29226] Comment generates syntax error

2017-01-10 Thread Simon Grantham
Simon Grantham added the comment: Thanks Ammar. Curiously, the comment I had put in my code was a note regarding usage and actually didn't contain the word "coding:" but the word "encoding:". # curl -v --header "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" -d @somefile.txt &

[issue29226] Comment generates syntax error

2017-01-10 Thread Simon Grantham
Changes by Simon Grantham <sgrant...@walled.net>: -- type: -> compile error ___ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.pyt

[issue29226] Comment generates syntax error

2017-01-10 Thread Simon Grantham
New submission from Simon Grantham: Placing the word "coding:" in a hash tag comment in a file causes a syntax error. Eg: ~ $ cat tst.py # coding: Wow! How odd! ~ $ python tst.py File "tst.py", line 2 SyntaxError: encoding problem: Wow ~ $ -- components: Inter