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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_relative_file(filename):
 """Returns contents of the given file, which path is supposed relative to this module."""

    with open(join(dirname(abspath(__file__)), filename)) as f:
        return f.read()