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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_file(self, f):
 """Get values from config file"""

        try:
            with open(f, 'r') as _fo:
                _seria_in = seria.load(_fo)
                _y = _seria_in.dump('yaml')
        except IOError:
            raise FiggypyError("could not open configuration file")
        self.values.update(yaml.load(_y))