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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 _short_traceback(skip=3):
 """Cleaned-up form of traceback."""

  counter, res = 0, []
  # Skipping 3 lines by default: the top (useless) and self-call.
  lines = traceback.format_exc().splitlines()[skip:]
  for l in lines:
    res.append(_shorten_file_path(l))
    if counter % 2 == 1:
      res.append('')
    counter += 1
    # If we see a LayerError, the traceback has already been processed.
    if l.startswith('LayerError'):
      # Skip 4 back except last as these are internal base-layer calls.
      res = res[:-4] + [res[-1]]
      res += lines[counter:]
      break
  return '\n'.join(res)