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

[Antoine Pitrou]

Victor Stinner <victor.stinner <at> 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.