code: def slurp(path, encoding='UTF-8'):
      
      with io.open(path, 'r', encoding=encoding) as f:
          return f.read()
docs: Reads file `path` and returns the entire contents as a unicode string
  
      By default assumes the file is encoded as UTF-8
  
      Parameters
      ----------
      path : str
          File path to file on disk
      encoding : str, default `UTF-8`, optional
          Encoding of the file
  
      Returns
      -------
  
      The txt read from the file as a unicode string