""" Erik Meijer. 2014. The curse of the excluded middle. Commun. ACM 57, 6 (June 2014), 50-55. DOI=10.1145/2605176 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2605176 """ with open('citation.txt', encoding='ascii') as fp: get_contents = lambda: fp.read() print(get_contents())