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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 get_config(config_file):
 """Get config file and parse YAML into dict."""

    config_path = os.path.abspath(config_file)

    try:
        with open(config_path, 'r') as data:
            config = yaml.safe_load(data)
    except IOError as exc:
        sys.exit(str(exc))

    return config