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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 local package version. """

    path = join("lib", _CONFIG["name"], "__version__.py")
    with open(path) as stream:
        exec(stream.read())
    return __version__