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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 extract_lambda_package(self, package_name, path):
 """ Extracts the lambda package into a given path. Assumes the package exists in lambda packages. """

        lambda_package = lambda_packages[package_name][self.runtime]

        # Trash the local version to help with package space saving
        shutil.rmtree(os.path.join(path, package_name), ignore_errors=True)

        tar = tarfile.open(lambda_package['path'], mode="r:gz")
        for member in tar.getmembers():
            tar.extract(member, path)