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 _check_sigint_gate_is_correct(self):
        assert (
            self._threads_ignoring_sigint >= 0
        ), "This should never happen, someone must have modified the counter outside of SignalHandler."