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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_csv_lines(path):
 """ Opens CSV file `path` and returns list of rows. Pass output of this function to `csv.DictReader` for reading data. """

    csv_file = open(path, 'r')
    csv_lines_raw = csv_file.readlines()
    csv_lines_clean = [line for line in csv_lines_raw if len(line.strip()) > 0]
    return csv_lines_clean