diff --git a/Lib/idlelib/IOBinding.py b/Lib/idlelib/IOBinding.py
index ba45ee8..f5665b9 100644
--- a/Lib/idlelib/IOBinding.py
+++ b/Lib/idlelib/IOBinding.py
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@
 
 encoding = encoding.lower()
 
-coding_re = re.compile("coding[:=]\s*([-\w_.]+)")
+coding_re = re.compile(r'^[ \t\f]*#.*coding[:=][ \t]*([-\w.]+)', re.ASCII)
 
 class EncodingMessage(SimpleDialog):
     "Inform user that an encoding declaration is needed."
@@ -125,11 +125,12 @@
     Raise LookupError if the encoding is declared but unknown.
     """
     # Only consider the first two lines
-    str = str.split("\n")[:2]
-    str = "\n".join(str)
-
-    match = coding_re.search(str)
-    if not match:
+    str = str.split("\n", 2)[:2]
+    for line in lst:
+        match = coding_re.match(line)
+        if match is not None:
+            break
+    else:
         return None
     name = match.group(1)
     # Check whether the encoding is known
diff --git a/Lib/lib2to3/pgen2/tokenize.py b/Lib/lib2to3/pgen2/tokenize.py
index e090aa9..9cf2a69 100644
--- a/Lib/lib2to3/pgen2/tokenize.py
+++ b/Lib/lib2to3/pgen2/tokenize.py
@@ -236,7 +236,7 @@
                 startline = False
             toks_append(tokval)
 
-cookie_re = re.compile("coding[:=]\s*([-\w.]+)")
+cookie_re = re.compile(r'^[ \t\f]*#.*coding[:=][ \t]*([-\w.]+)', re.ASCII)
 
 def _get_normal_name(orig_enc):
     """Imitates get_normal_name in tokenizer.c."""
@@ -281,11 +281,10 @@
             line_string = line.decode('ascii')
         except UnicodeDecodeError:
             return None
-
-        matches = cookie_re.findall(line_string)
-        if not matches:
+        match = cookie_re.match(line_string)
+        if not match:
             return None
-        encoding = _get_normal_name(matches[0])
+        encoding = _get_normal_name(match.group(1))
         try:
             codec = lookup(encoding)
         except LookupError:
diff --git a/Lib/lib2to3/tests/data/false_encoding.py b/Lib/lib2to3/tests/data/false_encoding.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f4e59e7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Lib/lib2to3/tests/data/false_encoding.py
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+print '#coding=0'
diff --git a/Lib/lib2to3/tests/test_refactor.py b/Lib/lib2to3/tests/test_refactor.py
index 6020d1f..543fd42 100644
--- a/Lib/lib2to3/tests/test_refactor.py
+++ b/Lib/lib2to3/tests/test_refactor.py
@@ -271,6 +271,10 @@
         fn = os.path.join(TEST_DATA_DIR, "different_encoding.py")
         self.check_file_refactoring(fn)
 
+    def test_false_file_encoding(self):
+        fn = os.path.join(TEST_DATA_DIR, "false_encoding.py")
+        data = self.check_file_refactoring(fn)
+
     def test_bom(self):
         fn = os.path.join(TEST_DATA_DIR, "bom.py")
         data = self.check_file_refactoring(fn)