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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_all(self, encoding='utf-8'):
 """ Reads from the file and returns the content as a string. """

        logger.info("Reading everything from %s" % self)
        with codecs.open(self.path, 'r', encoding) as fin:
            read_text = fin.read()
        return read_text