def METHOD_NAME():
    """
    check that we can read files with various names
    NOTE: this is using PATH object
    """
    filepath = OUTPUT_DIR / 'simple_ascii_name.txt'
    print(f"testing: {filepath}")
    # create a file:
    contents = "Just a little ASCII text\n"
    with open(filepath, 'w') as fp:
        fp.write(contents)
    # can we read it back in?
    read_contents = read_file(filepath).decode('ascii')
    assert contents == read_contents