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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 _add_timeout(deferred, timeout):
 """ Add a timeout to the given deferred. This is designed to work with both old Twisted and versions of Twisted with the addTimeout API. This is exclusively to support EL7. The deferred will errback with a :class:`defer.CancelledError` if the version of Twisted being used doesn't have the ``defer.Deferred.addTimeout`` API, otherwise it will errback with the normal ``error.TimeoutError`` """

    try:
        deferred.addTimeout(timeout, reactor)
    except AttributeError:
        # Twisted 12.2 (in EL7) does not have the addTimeout API, so make do with
        # the slightly more annoying approach of scheduling a call to cancel which
        # is then canceled if the deferred succeeds before the timeout is up.
        delayed_cancel = reactor.callLater(timeout, deferred.cancel)

        def cancel_cancel_call(result):
            """Halt the delayed call to cancel if the deferred fires before the timeout."""
            if not delayed_cancel.called:
                delayed_cancel.cancel()
            return result

        deferred.addBoth(cancel_cancel_call)