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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_vocab_file(vocab_file, reserved_tokens=None):
 """Load vocabulary while ensuring reserved tokens are at the top."""

  if reserved_tokens is None:
    reserved_tokens = RESERVED_TOKENS

  subtoken_list = []
  with tf.gfile.Open(vocab_file, mode="r") as f:
    for line in f:
      subtoken = _native_to_unicode(line.strip())
      subtoken = subtoken[1:-1]  # Remove surrounding single-quotes
      if subtoken in reserved_tokens:
        continue
      subtoken_list.append(_native_to_unicode(subtoken))
  return reserved_tokens + subtoken_list