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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 make_key(*criteria):
 """Make a string key out of many criteria."""

    criteria = [stringify(c) for c in criteria]
    criteria = [c for c in criteria if c is not None]
    if len(criteria):
        return ':'.join(criteria)