jacquev6/PyGithub — pull request #110 by Zearin (2012-11-01 15:45:03+00:00)
Title: Add encoding comment to source files

This is a minor thing. It’s a convention, not a rule (obviously)—but it’s also a best practice.

Many text editors look for this kind of comment as the first line—or second line, if there is a shebang (the `#!/usr/bin/env python`, or whatever else)—and make use of this to determine the file’s encoding.