Issue 14311: ConfigParser does not parse utf-8 files with BOM bytes (original) (raw)

Issue14311

Created on 2012-03-15 02:24 by Sean.Wang, last changed 2022-04-11 14:57 by admin. This issue is now closed.

Messages (3)
msg155843 - (view)	Author: Sean Wang (Sean.Wang)	Date: 2012-03-15 02:24
ConfigParser failed to parse a utf-8 file with BOM bytes('\xef\xbb\xbf'), it would raise ConfigParser.MissingSectionHeaderError. I think that other files with BOM would have the same problem; because the argument "SECTCRE" does not consider the BOM conditions. Now the workaround is like below: cp=ConfigParser.ConfigParser() cfgfile=os.path.join(curpath,'config.cfg') cp.readfp(codecs.open(cfgfile, 'r','utf-8-sig'))
msg156042 - (view)	Author: Éric Araujo (eric.araujo) *	Date: 2012-03-16 14:46
Could you paste the exact code that fails? In 3.2+ there is a read_something method that takes an encoding argument, so that should work for example.
msg156079 - (view)	Author: Łukasz Langa (lukasz.langa) *	Date: 2012-03-16 20:23
What you considered a workaround is actually what you should be using faced with BOM bytes. This is a broader issue in Python, not necessarily connected with ConfigParser or any other library. Also, this has been already reported here: http://bugs.python.org/issue7519 For the UTF-8 BOM context please see: http://bugs.python.org/issue7651 To solve the actual problem we should really do something about that last issue. If you have any further questions, please ask. If not, I will close this issue.