BOM should be ignored by Python

[Neil Hodgson]

> I believe this was discussed on python-dev, and decided that Python itself
> should not handle BOM markers at all - simply leave them to the app.  It
> would be a little painful to change the Python file read semantics to
> handle this only when reading the first 2 bytes of a disk-based file.
> Further, Python would need to maintain the BOM read for a particular
> stream, so it can be applied to later, potentially disjointed reads of the
> file.

   Damn. I expressed this badly.

   I'm not interested in changing Python's file reading, just the way it
handles Python scripts.

   Neil