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ysskrishna/strip-bom

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Last release: 4 months ago

Strip BOM is a small Python utility for removing the UTF-8 byte order mark (BOM) from strings, bytes, bytearrays, streams, and files. It helps avoid issues when BOMs appear inconsistently across inputs, including when comparing text or parsing data formats.

Project status

  • The source appears actively maintained in the short term, with a recent GitHub push and a newly published version introducing the package (last upstream push on 2026-01-31).
  • Apparent update cadence is unclear from the provided evidence, since only one recent update summary (v1.0.0) is shown, so no pattern over time can be concluded.

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Recent updates

  • v1.0.0

    4 months ago

    Release v1.0.0 introduces strip-bom, a new Python package focused on removing UTF-8 BOMs from strings, bytes/bytearray buffers, streams, and files. It includes a UTF-8 validation step before stripping BOMs from buffers, plus type hints and a comprehensive test suite.

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