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 sls(n, d):
            gg = te.reduce_axis((0, lengths[n]))
            indices_idx = length_offsets[n] + gg
            data_idx = indices[indices_idx]
            data_val = data[data_idx, d]
            return te.sum(data_val, axis=gg)