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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 format_exception(exception):
 """Format an exception as diagnostics output. exception is the tuple as expected from sys.exc_info. """

    exception_lines = traceback.format_exception(*exception)
    # The lines returned from format_exception do not strictly contain
    # one line per element in the list (i.e. some elements have new
    # line characters in the middle). Normalize that oddity.
    lines = "".join(exception_lines).splitlines(True)
    return format_as_diagnostics(lines)