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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 stop(self):
 """ Instructs the kernel process to stop channels and the kernel manager to then shutdown the process. """

        logger.debug('Stopping kernel')
        self.kc.stop_channels()
        self.km.shutdown_kernel(now=True)
        del self.km