Hello python world,

I'm trying to update the content of a $Microsoft$ VC2005 project files using a python application.
Since those files are XML data, I assumed I could easily do that.

My problem is that VC somehow thinks that the file is corrupted and update the file like the following:

-<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
+?<feff><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>


Actually, <feff> is displayed in a different color by vim, telling me that this is some kind of special caracter code (I'm no familiar with such thing). After googling that, I have a clue : could be some unicode caracter use to indicate something ... well I don't know in fact ("UTF-8 files sometimes start with a byte-order marker (BOM) to indicate that they are encoded in UTF-8.").

My problem is however simplier : how do I add such character at the begining of the file ?
I tried

f = open('paf', w)
f.write(u'\ufeff')

UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\ufeff' in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)

The error may be explicit but I have no idea how to proceed further. Any clue ?

JM

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