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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 check_whitelist(host, whitelist):
    ''' Check a given request host against a whitelist.

    Args:
        host (str) :
            A host string to compare against a whitelist.

            If the host does not specify a port, then ``":80"`` is implicitly
            assumed.

        whitelist (seq[str]) :
            A list of host patterns to match against

    Returns:
        ``True``, if ``host`` matches any pattern in ``whitelist``, otherwise
        ``False``

     '''
    if ':' not in host:
        host = host + ':80'

    if host in whitelist:
        return True

    return any(match_host(host, pattern) for pattern in whitelist)