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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def _read(self):
 """Open the file and return its contents."""

        with open(self.path, 'r') as file_handle:

            content = file_handle.read()

        # Py27 INI config parser chokes if the content provided is not unicode.
        # All other versions seems to work appropriately. Forcing the value to
        # unicode here in order to resolve this issue.
        return compat.unicode(content)