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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 pickle_load(fname):
 """return the contents of a pickle file"""

    assert type(fname) is str and os.path.exists(fname)
    print("loaded",fname)
    return pickle.load(open(fname,"rb"))