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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 should_ignore_rule(self, rule):
 """ Determines whether a rule should be ignored based on the general list of commits to ignore """

        return rule.id in self.config.ignore or rule.name in self.config.ignore