On 2012年8月15日 17:57:47 +0100, MRAB wrote: >> #!/usr/bin/python3 >> #_*_ coding: latin1 _*_ >>> Aw well as the other replies, the "coding" line should be: >> #-*- coding: latin1 -*- I don't believe that actually matters to Python. It may matter to Emacs or some other editors, but Python simply matches on this regex: coding[=:]\s*([-\w.]+) http://docs.python.org/py3k/reference/lexical_analysis.html#encoding-declarations -- Steven