Last year I learned about Byte Order Mark (BOM), and how imports of CSV files generated on Windows should be decoded as “utf-8-sig” instead of “utf-8” when using Python `csv.reader()`.
That lesson saved me a lot of time today.
#Python
Marijke Luttekes
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