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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 get_as_string(self, s3_path, encoding='utf-8'):
 """ Get the contents of an object stored in S3 as string. :param s3_path: URL for target S3 location :param encoding: Encoding to decode bytes to string :return: File contents as a string """

        content = self.get_as_bytes(s3_path)
        return content.decode(encoding)