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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 wash_html_id(dirty):
 """Strip non-alphabetic or newline characters from a given string. It can be used as a HTML element ID (also with jQuery and in all browsers). :param dirty: the string to wash :returns: the HTML ID ready string """

    import re
    if not dirty[0].isalpha():
        # we make sure that the first character is a lowercase letter
        dirty = 'i' + dirty
    non_word = re.compile(r'[^\w]+')
    return non_word.sub('', dirty)