Question

I’m printing the first line from a file:

with open(path,"r",encoding='utf8') as f:
    for i, l in enumerate(f.readlines()):
        print(bytes(l.rstrip(), encoding='utf8'))

which I expect to output b’1′ but instead I’m getting:

b'\xef\xbb\xbf1'

what’s the issue here?

I’m on windows and I saved my file using notepad++.

Answer 1

The UTF-8 representation of the BOM is the byte sequence 0xEF,0xBB,0xBF. A text editor or web browser interpreting the text as ISO-8859-1 or CP1252 will display the characters  for this.

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BOM in UTF-8 is not needed. You can configure Notepad++.