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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 readlines(self, encoding=None):
 """Reads from the file and returns result as a list of lines."""

        try:
            encoding = encoding or ENCODING
            with codecs.open(self.path, encoding=None) as fi:
                return fi.readlines()
        except:
            return []