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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_filepath(filepath, encoding='utf-8'):
 """Returns the text content of `filepath`"""

    with codecs.open(filepath, 'r', encoding=encoding) as fo:
        return fo.read()