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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 popen(self, args, **kwargs):
 """ creates a subprocess with passed args """

        self.log.debug("popen %s", ' '.join(args))
        return vaping.io.subprocess.Popen(args, **kwargs)