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Author ned.deily
Recipients ned.deily
Date 2010-03-18.10:42:59
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$ cat bom3.py
# coding: utf-8
print("BOM BOOM!")
$ file bom3.py 
bom3.py: UTF-8 Unicode (with BOM) text
$ python3.1
Python 3.1.1+ (r311:74480, Jan 20 2010, 00:37:31) 
[GCC 4.4.3 20100108 (prerelease)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import bom3
BOM BOOM!
>>> import py_compile
>>> py_compile.compile("bom3.py")
  File "bom3.py", line 1
    # coding: utf-8
      ^
SyntaxError: invalid character in identifier

The same test does not fail with python2.6.4.
(Same results on OS X.)
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