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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):
 """ Load project's config and return dict. TODO: Convert the original dotted representation to hierarchical. """

        config = import_module('config')
        variables = [var for var in dir(config) if not var.startswith('_')]
        return {var: getattr(config, var) for var in variables}