UTF-8 HTML and CSS files with BOM (and how to remove the BOM with Python)

Question

First, some background: I\'m developing a web application using Python. All of my (text) files are currently stored in UTF-8 with the BOM. This includes all my HTML template

Answer 1

Check the first character after decoding to see if it's the BOM:

if u.startswith(u'\ufeff'):
  u = u[1:]