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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, _file):
 """return local file contents as endpoint."""

        with open(_file) as fh:
            data = fh.read()
            if self.verbose:
                sys.stdout.write("read %d bytes from %s\n"
                                 % (fh.tell(), _file))
        return data