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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 GitHub source appears to have low recent activity, with the latest upstream push on 2026-01-31 and the most recent documented update being v1.0.0 on 2026-01-31, about 7 months ago relative to today (2026-09-10).
- Update cadence is not evident beyond that initial v1.0.0, there are no newer updates provided in the evidence, so it does not look like a regularly maintained stream of updates.
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v1.0.0
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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