code: def read(fname):
      # file must be read as utf-8 in py3 to avoid to be bytes
      return codecs.open(
          os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), fname),
          encoding="utf-8",
      ).read()
  
imports: import codecs
  import os
  from setuptools import setup, find_packages
label_desc: Use image node_id 1 for calling a global function with example usage: read(fname) and returns: codecs