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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 run_functor(functor, *args, **kwargs):
 """ Given a functor, run it and return its result. We can use this with multiprocessing.map and map it over a list of job functors to do them. Handles getting more than multiprocessing's pitiful exception output This function was derived from: http://stackoverflow.com/a/16618842/19741 This code was adopted from the American Gut project: https://github.com/biocore/American-Gut/blob/master/americangut/parallel.py """

    try:
        # This is where you do your actual work
        return functor(*args, **kwargs)
    except Exception:
        # Put all exception text into an exception and raise that
        raise Exception("".join(traceback.format_exception(*sys.exc_info())))