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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 check_important_variables(self):
 """ Check all the variables needed are defined """

        if len(self.important_variables - set(self.args.keys())):
            raise TypeError("Some important variables are not set")