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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 skip(self):
 """ Eats through the input iterator without recording the content. """

        for pos, element in self.element_iter:
            tag, class_attr = _tag_and_class_attr(element)
            if tag == "div" and "thread" in class_attr and pos == "end":
                break