def read(*parts):
    """
    Build an absolute path from *parts* and and return the contents of the
    resulting file.  Assume UTF-8 encoding.
    """
    with codecs.open(os.path.join(HERE, *parts), "rb", "utf-8") as f:
        return f.read()
def add_dimension(cls, dataset, dimension, dim_pos, values, vdim):
        data = dataset.data.copy()
        if dimension.name not in data:
            data[dimension.name] = values
        return data