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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 _clean_salt_variables(params, variable_prefix="__"):
    '''
    Pops out variables from params which starts with `variable_prefix`.
    '''
    list(list(map(params.pop, [k for k in params if k.startswith(variable_prefix)])))
    return params