Where does this come from: -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

Question

Python recognizes the following as instruction which defines file\'s encoding:

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

I definitely saw this kind of instru

Answer 1

In PyCharm, I'd leave it out. It turns off the UTF-8 indicator at the bottom with a warning that the encoding is hard-coded. Don't think you need the PyCharm comment mentioned above.