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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 get_file_contents(path):
 """ Get the contents of a file. """

    with open(path, 'rb') as fp:
        # mitogen.core.Blob() is a bytes subclass with a repr() that returns a
        # summary of the blob, rather than the raw blob data. This makes
        # logging output *much* nicer. Unlike most custom types, blobs can be
        # serialized.
        return mitogen.core.Blob(fp.read())