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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 __uuid(*args):
 """Generate a UUID based on the given parameters."""


        s = '-'.join(args)

        sha1 = hashlib.sha1(s.encode('utf-8', errors='surrogateescape'))
        uuid_sha1 = sha1.hexdigest()

        return uuid_sha1