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 matchfn(self, f):
        # XXX: is_dir is set to True here for performance.
        # It should be set to whether "f" is actually a directory or not.
        return self._matcher.match_relative(f, True)