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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 _readcsv(self, path_to_csv):
 """reads a csv column"""

        return np.genfromtxt(path_to_csv,
                             dtype=None,
                             delimiter=',',
                             names=True)