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| author | Terry Jan Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> | 2022-04-02 20:13:37 -0400 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2022-04-02 20:13:37 -0400 |
| commit | 01be5d6446abbdd95d0c18bd19a58a62b05568d8 (patch) | |
| tree | 9e8c4a2a4af5c8300e80a8898d8b24e906b6c433 | |
| parent | ebbdbbff5d6840807e46ec61b8a323e94ee88de2 (diff) | |
| download | cpython-git-01be5d6446abbdd95d0c18bd19a58a62b05568d8.tar.gz | |
bpo-24563: Link encoding names to encoding declarations (GH-32274)
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst | 5 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst b/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst index b69d0fbdd4..dba1a9dd2e 100644 --- a/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst +++ b/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst @@ -101,12 +101,11 @@ addition, if the first bytes of the file are the UTF-8 byte-order mark (``b'\xef\xbb\xbf'``), the declared file encoding is UTF-8 (this is supported, among others, by Microsoft's :program:`notepad`). -If an encoding is declared, the encoding name must be recognized by Python. The +If an encoding is declared, the encoding name must be recognized by Python +(see :ref:`standard-encodings`). The encoding is used for all lexical analysis, including string literals, comments and identifiers. -.. XXX there should be a list of supported encodings. - .. _explicit-joining: |