Python load json file with UTF-8 BOM header

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You can open with codecs:

import json
import codecs

json.load(codecs.open('sample.json','r','utf-8-sig'))

or decode with utf-8-sig yourself and pass to loads:

json.loads(open('sample.json').read().decode('utf-8-sig'))