python fails to import sitecustomize.py due to encoding problem (Windows)

[Jerzy Luszawski]

Under Windows python recognizes encoding as 'ascii'. I modified sitecustomize.py to set it explicitely to 'cp1250'. It seemed not to work, so I tried to pin-point the problem and under python shell tried:

>>> import sitecustomize

and got following response:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<pyshell#2>", line 1, in <module>
    import sitecustomize
  File "C:\Program Files\Python\lib\site-packages\sitecustomize.py", line 1
SyntaxError: encoding problem: utf-8 (sitecustomize.py, line 1)

First line was:
# -*- coding: utf8 -*
I completely removed first line and everything works, so it may be a simple workaround.
But I don't know if we should change the first line of sitecustomize.py or is it Python bug to report?

[ncq (karsten-hilbert)]

That's a Windows bug. Use of sitecustomize.py is discouraged, too.