#!/usr/bin/python import sys import codecs if len(sys.argv) != 3: sys.stderr.write("Usage: " + sys.argv[0] + " inutf16 outbyte\n") sys.exit(1) input = codecs.open(sys.argv[1], 'r', 'utf-16'); out = open(sys.argv[2], 'w') out.write(input.read()) out.close() input.close()