'Returns the data stored with the given id.
With unicode=True, returns a Unicode string.'

def get(self, k, unicode=True):

    if (k in self):
        f = open(self._hash(k), 'rb')
        v = f.read().lstrip(codecs.BOM_UTF8)
        f.close()
        if (unicode is True):
            return decode_utf8(v)
        else:
            return v
    raise KeyError(k)
