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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 generateIndex(self, refresh=0, refresh_index=0):
 """Writes the index file"""

        open(self.index_file, "wt").write(self.renderIndex(refresh=refresh, refresh_index=refresh_index))