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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, filepath):
 """Read the metadata values from a file path."""

        fp = codecs.open(filepath, 'r', encoding='utf-8')
        try:
            self.read_file(fp)
        finally:
            fp.close()