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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def read_magic_file(self, path, sort_by_this_name):
 """ reads a magic formated data file from path and sorts the keys according to sort_by_this_name Parameters path : path to file to read sort_by_this_name : variable to sort data by """

        DATA = {}
        try:
            with open(path, 'r') as finput:
                lines = list(finput.readlines()[1:])
        except FileNotFoundError:
            return []
        # fin=open(path,'r')
        # fin.readline()
        line = lines[0]
        header = line.strip('\n').split('\t')
        error_strings = []
        for line in lines[1:]:
            tmp_data = {}
            tmp_line = line.strip('\n').split('\t')
            for i in range(len(tmp_line)):
                tmp_data[header[i]] = tmp_line[i]
            if tmp_data[sort_by_this_name] in list(DATA.keys()):
                error_string = "-E- ERROR: magic file %s has more than one line for %s %s" % (
                    path, sort_by_this_name, tmp_data[sort_by_this_name])
                # only print each error message once
                if error_string not in error_strings:
                    print(error_string)
                    error_strings.append(error_string)
            DATA[tmp_data[sort_by_this_name]] = tmp_data
        # fin.close()
        finput.close()
        return(DATA)