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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 import_parameters_from_file(parameters_file):
 """ Try importing a parameter dictionary from file. We expect values in parameters_file to be defined as follows: param1: value1 param2: [value2, value3] """

    params = {}

    with open(parameters_file, 'r') as f:
        matches = re.findall('(.*): (.*)', f.read())

    for m in matches:
        params[m[0]] = ast.literal_eval(m[1])

    return params