Python UTF-16 to Ascii file converter

utf16_2_ascii.py

import codecs
import sys
import os

if __name__ == "__main__":
    lines = ''
    with codecs.open(sys.argv[1], 'r', 'utf-16') as f:
        lines = f.read()
    os.rename(sys.argv[1], sys.argv[1] + '_utf16')
    with codecs.open(sys.argv[1], 'w', 'ascii') as w:
        w.write(lines)