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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 _debug_linter_status(linter, filename, show_lint_files):
 """Indicate that we are running this linter if required."""

    if show_lint_files:
        print("{linter}: {filename}".format(linter=linter, filename=filename))