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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 _clear_empty_values(args):
    '''
    Scrap junk data from a dict.
    '''
    result = {}
    for param in args:
        if args[param] is not None:
            result[param] = args[param]
    return result