How to convert Windows-1251 text file to utf8?

Question

Python

How to convert Windows-1251 encoded text file to utf-8?

Answer 1

For Python3

with open("file.txt","r",encoding="windows-1251") as _in,\ 
     open("new_file.txt","w",encoding="utf-8") as _out:
    _out.write(_in.read())

and for Python2 I'm too lazy to compose