Define shebang and encoding in python

Asked Sep 19 '13 at 09:18

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Is there a difference between

(a) defining the encoding with the shebang

#!/usr/bin/env python -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

(b) defining the shebang and the encoding on separate lines?

#!/usr/bin/env python 
#-*- coding: utf-8 -*-

asked Sep 19 '13 at 09:18

alvas

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There are many questions about this already, [here is one](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/728891/correct-way-to-define-python-source-code-encoding) that answers your question. – Serdalis Sep 19 '13 at 09:20

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