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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 load_configs(self, conf_file):
 """ Assumes that the config file does not have any sections, so throw it all in global """

        with open(conf_file) as stream:
            lines = itertools.chain(("[global]",), stream)
            self._config.read_file(lines)
        return self._config['global']