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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 start(cls, name):
 """ starts a timer with the given name. :param name: the name of the timer :type name: string """

        if cls.debug:
            print("Timer", name, "started ...")
        cls.timer_start[name] = time.time()