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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 fatal(ftn, txt):

 """If can't continue."""

    msg = "{0}.{1}:FATAL:{2}\n".format(modname, ftn, txt)
    raise SystemExit(msg)