import codecs

f=open('testutf16.txt','wb')
f.write('\xFF\xFE')
f.write('\x20\x00'*70)
f.write('\x67\xD8\x8A\xDE')
f.close()

f=codecs.open('testutf16.txt','r','utf-16')
line=f.readline()
f.close()