Python2.7 Make UTF-8 encoded JSON out of unicode(escaped)

make_utf_8_json.py

import argparse
import codecs
import json

def make_utf_8_json(input_file, output_file):
    content = json.loads(open(input_file, 'r').read())
    cc = json.dumps(content, indent=2, sort_keys=True, ensure_ascii=False)

    file = codecs.open(output_file, "w", "utf-8")
    file.write(cc)
    file.close()

if __name__ == '__main__':
    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
    parser.add_argument("--file", "-f", type=str, required=True)
    parser.add_argument("--out", "-o", type=str, default='out.json')
    args = parser.parse_args()
    make_utf_8_json(args.file, args.out)