code: def get_as_string(self, s3_path, encoding='utf-8'):
          
          content = self.get_as_bytes(s3_path)
          return content.decode(encoding)
docs: Get the contents of an object stored in S3 as string.
  
          :param s3_path: URL for target S3 location
          :param encoding: Encoding to decode bytes to string
          :return: File contents as a string