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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_sphinx_environment(pth):
 """Read the sphinx environment.pickle file at path `pth`."""


    with open(pth, 'rb') as fo:
        env = pickle.load(fo)
    return env