[Python] How read a file from a pod in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) in a Pythonic way?

I have a requirement to read a file which is located inside a particular folder in a pod in AKS.

My manual flow would be to:

1. exec into the pod with kubectl.
2. cd to the directory where the file is located.
3. cat the file to see it's contents.

I want to automate all this purely using python. I am able to do it with subprocess but that would work only on a machine which has azure and kubectl setup.

Thus, I am looking for a purely pythonic way of doing this. I have looked into the Kubernetes client for Python but I am not able to find a way to do everything which I listed above.

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