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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 clean(self, argslist):
 """Cleans the argslist."""

        result = []
        for arg in argslist:
            if type(arg) == type([]):
                if len(result) > 0:
                    result[-1] = result[-1] + "(*{})".format(len(self.clean(arg)))
                elif "/" not in arg[0]:
                    msg.warn("argument to function call unrecognized. {}".format(arg))
            else:
                cleaner = re.sub("[:,]+", "", arg).strip()
                if len(cleaner) > 0:
                    result.append(cleaner)
        
        return result