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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_metric(*args, **kwargs):
 """Add metric values. Values may be expressed with keyword arguments. For metric names containing dashes, these may be expressed as one or more 'key=value' positional arguments. May only be called from the collect-metrics hook."""

    _args = ['add-metric']
    _kvpairs = []
    _kvpairs.extend(args)
    _kvpairs.extend(['{}={}'.format(k, v) for k, v in kwargs.items()])
    _args.extend(sorted(_kvpairs))
    try:
        subprocess.check_call(_args)
        return
    except EnvironmentError as e:
        if e.errno != errno.ENOENT:
            raise
    log_message = 'add-metric failed: {}'.format(' '.join(_kvpairs))
    log(log_message, level='INFO')