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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 process_settings(self, settings):
 """A lazy way of feeding Dharma with configuration settings."""

        logging.debug("Using configuration from: %s", settings.name)
        exec(compile(settings.read(), settings.name, 'exec'), globals(), locals())