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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 imdecode(image_path):
 """Return BGR image read by opencv"""

    import os
    assert os.path.exists(image_path), image_path + ' not found'
    im = cv2.imread(image_path)
    return im