Plex Playlist Importer v1.1 (source). Current updates spanning 2017:

• Fixed absolute path logic for Linux (partial credit to Matt Spitz)
• Bypasses UTF8 BOM
• Program now works off of argument flags.
  • Added parameters: Playlist encoding, override type, force list
  • Created special BulletHelpFormatter class for parameters
• Playlist names can now conflict with other item/list names in Plex
• Console column width passthrough in the .sh file
• Updated READMEs regarding:
  • Unicode compliance
  • The “no such module : FTS4” error
  • Running the script from a computer external to the server running Plex
  • The “The program can’t start because MSVCR100.dll is missing” error
  • All updates
• Added the ability to compile to a windows executable (via setup.py py2exe)
• The Playlist Name is now an optional argument which can be entered after the program is ran. This allows directly dragging playlists onto the executable
• Added shebang to main script
• M3U files now ignore lines that are empty or have only whitespace