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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_snapshots(path, comments="#", directed=False, delimiter=None, nodetype=None, timestamptype=None, encoding='utf-8', keys=False):
 """Read a DyNetx graph from snapshot graph list format. Parameters path : basestring The desired output filename delimiter : character Column delimiter """

    ids = None
    lines = (line.decode(encoding) for line in path)
    if keys:
        ids = read_ids(path.name, delimiter=delimiter, timestamptype=timestamptype)

    return parse_snapshots(lines, comments=comments, directed=directed, delimiter=delimiter,  nodetype=nodetype,
                           timestamptype=timestamptype, keys=ids)