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Files using ASCII (in Python 2) or UTF-8 (in Python 3) should not have an encoding declaration. In the standard library, non-default encodings should be used only for test purposes or when a comment or docstring needs to mention an author name that contains non-ASCII characters; otherwise, using \x, \u, \U, or \N escapes is the preferred way to ... ................
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