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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_file_to_string(path):
 """Read a file into a string."""

  bytes_string = tf.gfile.Open(path, 'r').read()
  return dlutils.python_portable_string(bytes_string)