New submission from Simon Grantham:

Placing the word "coding:" in a hash tag comment in a file causes a syntax 
error.  Eg:

~ $ cat tst.py

# coding: Wow! How odd!

~ $ python tst.py
  File "tst.py", line 2
SyntaxError: encoding problem: Wow
~ $

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components: Interpreter Core
messages: 285129
nosy: sgrantham
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Comment generates syntax error
versions: Python 2.7

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