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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 version():
 """Get the version number without importing the mrcfile package."""

    namespace = {}
    with open(os.path.join('mrcfile', 'version.py')) as f:
        exec(f.read(), namespace)
    return namespace['__version__']