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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 stop(self, timeout=None):
 """ Initiates a graceful stop of the processes """


        self.stopping = True

        for process in list(self.processes):
            self.stop_process(process, timeout=timeout)