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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 init(self, *args):
        '''init method
        Takes our custom options from self.options and creates a config
        dict which specifies custom settings.
        '''
        cfg = {}
        for k, v in self.options.items():
            if k.lower() in self.cfg.settings and v is not None:
                cfg[k.lower()] = v
        return cfg