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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 timespan(start_time):
 """Return time in milliseconds from start_time"""


    timespan = datetime.datetime.now() - start_time
    timespan_ms = timespan.total_seconds() * 1000
    return timespan_ms