code: def load_conf(cfg_path):
      
      global config
      try:
          cfg = open(cfg_path, 'r')
      except Exception as ex:
          if verbose:
              print("Unable to open {0}".format(cfg_path))
              print(str(ex))
          return False
  
      # Read the entire contents of the conf file
      cfg_json = cfg.read()
      cfg.close()
      # print(cfg_json)
  
      # Try to parse the conf file into a Python structure
      try:
          config = json.loads(cfg_json)
      except Exception as ex:
          print("Unable to parse configuration file as JSON")
          print(str(ex))
          return False
  
      # This config was successfully loaded
      return True
docs: Try to load the given conf file.