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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 load_conf(cfg_path):
 """ Try to load the given conf file. """

    global config
    try:
        cfg = open(cfg_path, 'r')
    except Exception as ex:
        if verbose:
            print("Unable to open {0}".format(cfg_path))
            print(str(ex))
        return False

    # Read the entire contents of the conf file
    cfg_json = cfg.read()
    cfg.close()
    # print(cfg_json)

    # Try to parse the conf file into a Python structure
    try:
        config = json.loads(cfg_json)
    except Exception as ex:
        print("Unable to parse configuration file as JSON")
        print(str(ex))
        return False

    # This config was successfully loaded
    return True