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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_config(self, path):
 """Return YAML values from given config file. @param path file to load """

        try:
            with open(path) as f:
                values = yaml.safe_load(f)
                if isinstance(values, dict):
                    return values
                else:
                    raise yaml.YAMLError('Unable to parse/load {}'.format(path))
        except(IOError, yaml.YAMLError) as e:
            if self.ignore_errors:
                return None
            else:
                raise e