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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 tuple_replace(tup, *pairs):
 """Return a copy of a tuple with some elements replaced. :param tup: The tuple to be copied. :param pairs: Any number of (index, value) tuples where index is the index of the item to replace and value is the new value of the item. """

    tuple_list = list(tup)
    for index, value in pairs:
        tuple_list[index] = value
    return tuple(tuple_list)