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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 die(msg, errlvl=1, prefix="Error: "):
 """Convenience function to write short message to stderr and quit."""

    stderr("%s%s\n" % (prefix, msg))
    sys.exit(errlvl)