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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 stop_animation(self, sprites):
 """stop animation without firing on_complete"""

        if isinstance(sprites, list) is False:
            sprites = [sprites]

        for sprite in sprites:
            self.tweener.kill_tweens(sprite)