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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, mode='r', *, buffering=-1, encoding=None, newline=None):
        ''' read data from the file. '''
        with self.open(mode=mode, buffering=buffering, encoding=encoding, newline=newline) as fp:
            return fp.read()