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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 open(self, mode='r', *, buffering=-1, encoding=None, newline=None, closefd=True):
        ''' open the file. '''
        return open(self._path,
                    mode=mode,
                    buffering=buffering,
                    encoding=encoding,
                    newline=newline,
                    closefd=closefd)