[Python-Dev] Improve open() to support reading file starting with an unicode BOM (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Fri Jan 8 15:34:26 CET 2010


Victor Stinner <victor.stinner haypocalc.com> writes:

I wrote a new version of my patch (version 3): * don't change the default behaviour: use open(filename, encoding="BOM") to check the BOM is there is any

Well, I think if we implement this the default behaviour should be changed. It looks a bit senseless to have two different "auto-choose" options, one with encoding=None and one with encoding="BOM".

Regards

Antoine.



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