UTF-8 + win EOL + 1st empty string = error

[chardet]

UTF-8 + win EOL + 1st empty string = error

[dontsovcmc]

This is my bug solution:

Index: C:/Python27/Lib/site-packages/chardet/universaldetector.py
===================================================================
--- C:/Python27/Lib/site-packages/chardet/universaldetector.py  (revision )
+++ C:/Python27/Lib/site-packages/chardet/universaldetector.py  (revision )
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@

         if not self._mGotData:
             # If the data starts with BOM, we know it is UTF
-            if aBuf[:3] == codecs.BOM:
+            if aBuf[:3] == codecs.BOM_UTF8:
                 # EF BB BF  UTF-8 with BOM
                 self.result = {'encoding': "UTF-8", 'confidence': 1.0}
             elif aBuf[:4] == codecs.BOM_UTF32_LE:

[dan-blanchard]

@dontsovcmc this is actually fixed in the develop branch. Since people keep mentioning this, I'll do a bugfix release.

[sigmavirus24]

@dontsovcmc please check recently closed issues next time. Thanks for taking the time to report this