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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 synchronize(klass, names=None):
 """Synchronize methods in the given class. Only synchronize the methods whose names are given, or all methods if names=None."""


    # basestring does not exist on Python 3
    try:
        basestring
    except NameError:
        basestring = (str, bytes)

    if isinstance(names, basestring):
        names = names.split()
    for (name, val) in list(klass.__dict__.items()):
        if callable(val) and name != '__init__' and \
                (names is None or name in names):
            # print("synchronizing", name)
            setattr(klass, name, synchronized(val))