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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_comments(self, comments, original_string=""):
 """ Returns a string with comments added """

        return comments and "{0}  # {1}".format(self._strip_comments(original_string)[0],
                                                "; ".join(comments)) or original_string