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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 configure(self, options, conf):
 """ Get filetype option to specify additional filetypes to watch. """

        Plugin.configure(self, options, conf)
        if options.filetype:
            self.filetypes += options.filetype