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fix: strip leading whitespace before encoding detection (fixes #508) #570

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4 changes: 4 additions & 0 deletions feedparser/encodings.py
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Expand Up @@ -177,6 +177,10 @@ def convert_to_utf8(
elif data[:4] == UTF32LE_MARKER:
bom_encoding = "utf-32le"

# Strip leading ASCII whitespace to handle broken feeds that start
# with a newline before the XML declaration (gh#508).
data = data.lstrip()

tempdata = data
try:
if bom_encoding:
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