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| author | Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> | 2022-04-03 00:40:55 (GMT) |
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bpo-24563: Link encoding names to encoding declarations (GH-32274)
(cherry picked from commit 01be5d6446abbdd95d0c18bd19a58a62b05568d8)
Co-authored-by: Terry Jan Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst | 5 |
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diff --git a/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst b/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst index 21ad373..d9e2cea 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: |