title: Is there any function like iconv in Python?
body: <p>I have some CSV files need to convert from shift-jis to utf-8.</p>
  
  <p>Here is my code in PHP, which is successful transcode to readable text.</p>
  
  <pre><code>$str = utf8_decode($str);
  $str = iconv('shift-jis', 'utf-8'. '//TRANSLIT', $str);
  echo $str;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>My problem is how to do same thing in Python.</p>