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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 _join(lst, key, sep=";"):
 """Auxiliary function to join same elements of a list of dictionaries if the elements are not None. """

    return sep.join([d[key] for d in lst if d[key]])