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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 connect(url, prefix=None, **kwargs):
 """ connect and return a connection instance from url arguments: - url (str):
 xbahn connection url """

    return connection(url, prefix=get_prefix(prefix), **kwargs)