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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 _get_thumbnail_filename(filename, append_text="-thumbnail"):
 """ Returns a thumbnail version of the file name. """

    name, ext = os.path.splitext(filename)
    return ''.join([name, append_text, ext])