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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 detect(filename, include_confidence=False):
 """ Detect the encoding of a file. Returns only the predicted current encoding as a string. If `include_confidence` is True, Returns tuple containing: (str encoding, float confidence) """

    f = open(filename)
    detection = chardet.detect(f.read())
    f.close()
    encoding = detection.get('encoding')
    confidence = detection.get('confidence')
    if include_confidence:
        return (encoding, confidence)
    return encoding