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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 parse(self, file, skipheader=False, outfile=None):
 """Parse a line-oriented association file into a list of association dict objects Note the returned list is of dict objects. TODO: These will later be specified using marshmallow and it should be possible to generate objects Arguments --------- file : file or string The file is parsed into association objects. Can be a http URL, filename or `file-like-object`, for input assoc file outfile : file Optional output file in which processed lines are written. This a file or `file-like-object` Return ------ list Associations generated from the file """

        associations = self.association_generator(file, skipheader=skipheader, outfile=outfile)
        a = list(associations)
        return a