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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, filename, encoding=None):
 """Read and parse a filename. Args: filename (str):
 path to file encoding (str):
 encoding of file, default None """

        with open(filename, encoding=encoding) as fp:
            self._read(fp, filename)
        self._filename = os.path.abspath(filename)