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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 send_email(subject, message, sender, recipients, image_png=None):
 """ Decides whether to send notification. Notification is cancelled if there are no recipients or if stdout is onto tty or if in debug mode. Dispatches on config value email.method. Default is 'smtp'. """

    notifiers = {
        'ses': send_email_ses,
        'sendgrid': send_email_sendgrid,
        'smtp': send_email_smtp,
        'sns': send_email_sns,
    }

    subject = _prefix(subject)
    if not recipients or recipients == (None,):
        return

    if _email_disabled_reason():
        logger.info("Not sending email to %r because %s",
                    recipients, _email_disabled_reason())
        return

    # Clean the recipients lists to allow multiple email addresses, comma
    # separated in luigi.cfg
    recipients_tmp = []
    for r in recipients:
        recipients_tmp.extend([a.strip() for a in r.split(',') if a.strip()])

    # Replace original recipients with the clean list
    recipients = recipients_tmp

    logger.info("Sending email to %r", recipients)

    # Get appropriate sender and call it to send the notification
    email_sender = notifiers[email().method]
    email_sender(sender, subject, message, recipients, image_png)