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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_ctcp(self, spin, nick, user, host, target, msg):
 """ it is used to extract ctcp requests into pieces. """

    
        # The ctcp delimiter token.
        DELIM = '\001'
    
        if not msg.startswith(DELIM) or not msg.endswith(DELIM):
            return
    
        ctcp_args = msg.strip(DELIM).split(' ') 
        
        spawn(spin, ctcp_args[0], (nick, user, host,  target, msg), *ctcp_args[1:])