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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(C, *args, **kwargs):

 """join a list of url elements, and include any keyword arguments, as a new URL"""

        u = C('/'.join([str(arg).strip('/') for arg in args]), **kwargs)
        return u