What is comment

[FaZant]

My python book for (absolute) beginners doesn't give an answer.
What does the sentence

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

do?

# is supposed to start a non-executable comment? What does -*- do/mean?
This sentence is supposed to load german letters? How can it do that, if it is a comment?
Must be a stupid question, have been searching for half an hour now.
Thanks!
Frans

[SurferTim]

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0263/

[robjak]

see if these will answer your questions:

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0263/

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/416 ... -in-python

[FaZant]

Thanks.
A magic comment! Didn't know Harry Potter was involved
But this definitely answers my question
Still a long way to go.
Frans