SyntaxError: encoding declaration in Unicode string

[asmeurer]

In [1]: # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
  File "<ipython-input-1-df4697b9472e>", line unknown
SyntaxError: encoding declaration in Unicode string

In regular Python

>>> # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
...
>>>

This came up %pasteing an example from http://numba.pydata.org/numba-doc/dev/examples.html#id1.

This seems related to #1103.

[takluyver]

Yep, calling %load will now strip the encoding declaration off, precisely to avoid this. Maybe we should strip it out before execution.

[minrk]

PR #3662 adds a transformer that should do the same thing we do in %load.