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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 _get_version():
 """Get the version from package itself."""

    with open("../waliki/__init__.py") as fh:
        for line in fh:
            if line.startswith("__version__ = "):
                return line.split("=")[-1].strip().strip("'").strip('"')