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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 export_handle(self, directory):
 """Get a filehandle for exporting"""

        filename = getattr(self, 'filename')
        dest_file = "%s/%s" % (directory, filename)
        dest_dir = os.path.dirname(dest_file)
        if not os.path.isdir(dest_dir):
            os.mkdir(dest_dir, 0o700)

        return open(dest_file, 'w')