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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 _maybe_log_technical_terms(global_options, tool_options):
 """Log technical terms as appropriate if the user requested it. As a side effect, if --log-technical-terms-to is passed to the linter then open up the file specified (or create it) and then merge the set of technical words that we have now with the technical words already in it. """

    log_technical_terms_to_path = global_options.get("log_technical_terms_to",
                                                     None)
    log_technical_terms_to_queue = tool_options.get("log_technical_terms_to",
                                                    None)
    if log_technical_terms_to_path:
        assert log_technical_terms_to_queue is not None

        try:
            os.makedirs(os.path.dirname(log_technical_terms_to_path))
        except OSError as error:
            if error.errno != errno.EEXIST:
                raise error

        if not log_technical_terms_to_queue.empty():
            with closing(os.fdopen(os.open(log_technical_terms_to_path,
                                           os.O_RDWR | os.O_CREAT),
                                   "r+")) as terms_file:
                # pychecker can't see through the handle returned by closing
                # so we need to suppress these warnings.
                terms = set(terms_file.read().splitlines())
                new_terms = set(freduce(lambda x, y: x | y,
                                        _drain(log_technical_terms_to_queue)))

                if not terms.issuperset(new_terms):
                    terms_file.seek(0)
                    terms_file.truncate(0)
                    terms_file.write("\n".join(list(terms |
                                                    set(new_terms))))