changing string encoding to different charset?

[Daniel Woodhouse]

Is it possible to re-encode a string to a different character set in
python?  To be more specific, I want to change a text file encoded in
windows-1251 to UTF-8.
I've tried using string.encode, but get the error:
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xce in position 0:
ordinal not in range(128)
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