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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 _build_label_filter(category, *args, **kwargs):
 """Construct a filter string to filter on metric or resource labels."""

    terms = list(args)
    for key, value in six.iteritems(kwargs):
        if value is None:
            continue

        suffix = None
        if key.endswith(
            ("_prefix", "_suffix", "_greater", "_greaterequal", "_less", "_lessequal")
        ):
            key, suffix = key.rsplit("_", 1)

        if category == "resource" and key == "resource_type":
            key = "resource.type"
        else:
            key = ".".join((category, "label", key))

        if suffix == "prefix":
            term = '{key} = starts_with("{value}")'
        elif suffix == "suffix":
            term = '{key} = ends_with("{value}")'
        elif suffix == "greater":
            term = "{key} > {value}"
        elif suffix == "greaterequal":
            term = "{key} >= {value}"
        elif suffix == "less":
            term = "{key} < {value}"
        elif suffix == "lessequal":
            term = "{key} <= {value}"
        else:
            term = '{key} = "{value}"'

        terms.append(term.format(key=key, value=value))

    return " AND ".join(sorted(terms))