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From: Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>
Subject: Re: PEP8 revised: max line lengths
Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2013 00:50:10 -0400
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On 8/1/2013 7:33 PM, Dave Angel wrote:
> Terry Reedy wrote:
>
>
>>>>
>>>> The diff with all the changes is here
>>>> http://hg.python.org/peps/rev/fb24c80e9afb
>>>
>
> Just out of curiosity, where is "coding cookie" defined?  I found enough
> distant references to decide it was supposed to mean the coding line
> (line 2, typically in Unix).  But I originally thought it meant the BOM.
>
> It must have a different name in the reference, but i can't seem to find
> it right now.  If indeed it has a different name, then Pep8 should use
> that name.

http://bugs.python.org/issue18628

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy