How re-write pre-existing text file as utf-8 in a separate file?

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I'm attempting to write a program where the code reads from a pre-existing text file, and then writes the text in that file as utf-8 in a new text file. How would I go about doing this? My apologies I am extremely new to python and I'm unaware of any modules that could help accomplish this task.

Possible duplicate of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/191359/how-to-convert-a-file-to-utf-8-in-python — kingmakerking, May 21 '17 at 21:24
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score 1 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:10

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You could check out this question asked previously: How to convert a file to utf-8 in Python?

But to summarize you should see the codecs library and particularly codecs.open() which allows specification of a file type.

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answered May 21 '17 at 21:28

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How re-write pre-existing text file as utf-8 in a separate file?

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