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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 config_settings_loader(request=None):
 """Utility function to load the pysaml2 configuration. This is also the default config loader. """

    conf = SPConfig()
    conf.load(copy.deepcopy(settings.SAML_CONFIG))
    return conf