is there a way to get the encoding of python file

Sun Sep 12 13:28:32 EDT 2010

On 9/12/10 4:14 AM, Stef Mientki wrote:
> hello,
>> Is it possible to get the encoding of a python file from the first source line,
> (if there's any),
> after importing it ( with '__import__' )
>> # -*- coding: windows-1252 -*-

The regular expression used to match the encoding declaration is given here:
http://docs.python.org/reference/lexical_analysis.html#encoding-declarations
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