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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 make_url(url, *paths):
 """Joins individual URL strings together, and returns a single string. """

    for path in paths:
        url = re.sub(r'/?$', re.sub(r'^/?', '/', path), url)
    return url