docs: def get_file_contents(source_path: str) -> str:
      """
      Loads the contents of the source into a string for execution using multiple
      loading methods to handle cross-platform encoding edge cases. If none of
      the load methods work, a string is returned that contains an error function
      response that will be displayed when the step is run alert the user to the
      error.
  
      :param source_path:
          Path of the step file to load.
      """
  
      open_funcs = [
          functools.partial(codecs.open, source_path, encoding='utf-8'),
          functools.partial(open, source_path, 'r')
      ]
  
      for open_func in open_funcs:
          try:
              with open_func() as f:
                  return f.read()
          except Exception:
              pass
  
      return (
          'raise IOError("Unable to load step file at: {}")'
          .format(source_path)
      )