#
#     Sam Hadow - Huffman-py
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#
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import os

def ifFileGetContent(string):
    '''input: str, return file content if str is a path, else str itself'''
    if os.path.isfile(string):
        with open(string, 'r') as fd:
            content = fd.read()
        return content
    else:
        return string