#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import codecs
with codecs.open('input1.txt', 'r', 'utf-8') as file:
	for l in file:
		print l

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "rus_print_infile.py", line 7, in <module>
    for l in file:
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/codecs.py", line 684, in next
    return self.reader.next()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/codecs.py", line 615, in next
    line = self.readline()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/codecs.py", line 530, in readline
    data = self.read(readsize, firstline=True)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/codecs.py", line 477, in read
    newchars, decodedbytes = self.decode(data, self.errors)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xd0 in position 12: invalid continuation byte

cat > input.txt
бла...бла...бла...

$ file input.txt 
input.txt: UTF-8 Unicode text

$ file input.txt 
input.txt: UTF-8 Unicode text

inputfile.readline()

inputfile.readlines()