On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 1:57 AM, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Thu, 10 Mar 2016 01:11 am, Chris Angelico wrote: > >> The first three bytes are the "UTF-8 BOM", which suggests you may have >> created this in a broken editor like Notepad. > > Notepad may be horribly crippled, but I'm not entirely sure "broken" is the > right word for it. Does it do anything *wrong*? I don't think so. >
Well, okay, this particular behaviour isn't technically "broken". But Notepad is broken in enough other ways that it's best to avoid it. (For example, its text *de*coding is famously buggy.) ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
