Is ‘# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-‘ also a comment in Python?
Yes, it is also a comment. And the contents of that comment carry special meaning if located at the top of the file, in the first two lines. From the Encoding declarations documentation: If a comment in the first or second line of the Python script matches the regular expression coding[=:]\s*([-\w.]+), this comment is processed as an encoding declaration; the … Read more