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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 kill_threads(self):
 """Kill all threads."""

    self._terminate.set()
    while self.are_threads_alive():
      time.sleep(0.001)
    self._threads = ()
    return self