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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 touch_file(self, filename):
 """Touch a file in the directory"""

        path_to_file = self.__file_class__(os.path.join(self, filename))
        path_to_file.touch()
        return path_to_file