aaronsaunders/UTF-8-sig-decode.py

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>print data_list '\xef\xbb\xbfsome_data1' source: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18664712/split-function-add-xef-xbb-xbf-n-to-my-list UTF-8 BOM in the beginning. To get rid of it, first decode your file contents to unicode.

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UTF-8-sig-decode.py

	fp = open("file.txt")
	data = fp.read().decode("utf-8-sig").encode("utf-8")

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