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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 get_async(filename):
 """ Asynchronously fetch an image """


    if os.path.isfile(os.path.join(config.static_folder, filename)):
        return flask.redirect(flask.url_for('static', filename=filename))

    retry_count = int(flask.request.args.get('retry_count', 0))
    if retry_count < 10:
        time.sleep(0.25)  # ghastly hack to get the client to backoff a bit
        return flask.redirect(flask.url_for('async',
                                            filename=filename,
                                            cb=random.randint(0, 2**48),
                                            retry_count=retry_count + 1))

    # the image isn't available yet; generate a placeholder and let the
    # client attempt to re-fetch periodically, maybe
    vals = [int(b) for b in hashlib.md5(
        filename.encode('utf-8')).digest()[0:12]]
    placeholder = PIL.Image.new('RGB', (2, 2))
    placeholder.putdata(list(zip(vals[0::3], vals[1::3], vals[2::3])))
    outbytes = io.BytesIO()
    placeholder.save(outbytes, "PNG")
    outbytes.seek(0)

    response = flask.make_response(
        flask.send_file(outbytes, mimetype='image/png'))
    response.headers['Refresh'] = 5
    return response