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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(self, filename):
 """Reads the file specified by filename This method will load the eapi.conf file specified by filename into the instance object. It will also add the default connection localhost if it was not defined in the eapi.conf file Args: filename (str):
 The full path to the file to load """


        try:
            SafeConfigParser.read(self, filename)
        except SafeConfigParserError as exc:
            # Ignore file and syslog a message on SafeConfigParser errors
            msg = ("%s: parsing error in eapi conf file: %s" %
                   (type(exc).__name__, filename))
            debug(msg)

        self._add_default_connection()

        for name in self.sections():
            if name.startswith('connection:') and \
               'host' not in dict(self.items(name)):

                self.set(name, 'host', name.split(':')[1])
        self.generate_tags()