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@@ -6,7 +6,9 @@ Type/class unification and new-style classes
Core and builtins
-- Encoding declarations (PEP 263, phase 1) have been implemented.
+- Encoding declarations (PEP 263, phase 1) have been implemented. A
+ comment of the form "# -*- coding: <encodingname> -*-" in the first
+ or second line of a Python source file indicates the encoding.
- list.sort() has a new implementation. While cross-platform results
may vary, and in data-dependent ways, this is much faster on many