code: def load_json(json_filespec):
    
    json_fh = open(json_filespec)
    config_dict = json.load(json_fh)
    json_fh.close()
    return config_dict
docs: Loads JSON from a config file
    Args:
      json_filespec: path/to/file.json
    Returns:
      a dict made from the JSON read, if successful
    Raises:
      IOError if the file could not be opened
      ValueError if the JSON could not be read successfully
      RuntimeError if something else went wrong