Martin v. Löwis <mar...@v.loewis.de> added the comment: Why are you saying this isn't an issue in 2.6.5? It behaves exactly the same as 2.7.1.
In any case, this is not a bug. Pass encoding="utf-8-sig" to io.open to have the signature stripped when the file is read. ---------- resolution: -> invalid status: open -> closed _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue11010> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com