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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(self, exclude=None):
 """ Remove all elements in the cache. """

        if exclude is None:
            self.cache = {}
        else:
            self.cache = {k: v for k, v in self.cache.items()
                          if k in exclude}