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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 warn(self, msg, whitespace_strp=True):
 """ For things that have gone seriously wrong but don't merit a program halt. Outputs to stderr, so JsonOutput does not need to override. @param msg: warning to output. @param whitespace_strp: whether to strip whitespace. """

        if self.errors_display:
            if whitespace_strp:
                msg = strip_whitespace(msg)

            if not self.log_to_file:
                msg = colors['warn'] + "[+] " + msg + colors['endc']
            else:
                msg = "[" + time.strftime("%c") + "] " + msg

            self.print(msg, file=self.error_log)