Fix bug in get encoding from "coding" comment line #3023
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The get_coding function can return an encoding that is not valid. This caused spyder to crash during startup. This pull request makes sure only valid encodings are returned.
An example text which returns an invalid encoding:
# Try decoding as utf-8 bytestring return __builtins__.unicode(msg, encoding="utf-8") except: pass try: # Try guessing system default encoding and decode as such import locale return __builtins__.unicode(msg, encoding=locale.getpreferredencoding()) except: pass try: # Attempt using filesystem encoding import sys return __builtins__.unicode(msg, encoding=sys.getfilesystemencoding()) except: