Message 187564 - Python tracker

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A coding cookie line will be ignored. Note that this affects only very obscure case when you are pasting a multiline code with a coding cookie line into IDLE shell (this is only way to get a coding cookie line in the shell). Running a file does not pass through runsource(). runsource() used only for a code entered in the shell (may be Martin or Roger correct me if I wrong)