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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 cable_from_file(filename):
 """\ Returns a cable from the provided file. `filename` An absolute path to the cable file. """

    html = codecs.open(filename, 'rb', 'utf-8').read()
    return cable_from_html(html, reader.reference_id_from_filename(filename))