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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_config(path):
 """ Read a configuration from disk. Arguments path -- the loation to deserialize """

    parser = _make_parser()
    if parser.read(path):
        return parser
    raise Exception("Failed to read {}".format(path))