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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 _fileToMatrix(file_name):
 """rudimentary method to read in data from a file"""

    # TODO: np.loadtxt() might be an alternative
    #     try:
    if 1 < 3:
        lres = []
        for line in open(file_name, 'r').readlines():
            if len(line) > 0 and line[0] not in ('%', '#'):
                lres.append(list(map(float, line.split())))
        res = lres
    while res != [] and res[0] == []:  # remove further leading empty lines
        del res[0]
    return res
    #     except:
    print('could not read file ' + file_name)