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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 _extract_archive(file, target_dir):
 """Extract archive file Parameters file : str Absolute path of the archive file. target_dir : str Target directory of the archive to be uncompressed """

    if file.endswith('.gz') or file.endswith('.tar') or file.endswith('.tgz'):
        archive = tarfile.open(file, 'r')
    elif file.endswith('.zip'):
        archive = zipfile.ZipFile(file, 'r')
    else:
        raise Exception('Unrecognized file type: ' + file)
    archive.extractall(path=target_dir)
    archive.close()