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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_lines(in_file):
 """Returns a list of lines from a input markdown file."""


    with open(in_file, 'r') as inf:
        in_contents = inf.read().split('\n')
    return in_contents