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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 pin_auth(self, request):
 """Authenticates with the pin."""

        exhausted = False
        auth = False
        trust = self.check_pin_trust(request.environ)

        # If the trust return value is `None` it means that the cookie is
        # set but the stored pin hash value is bad.  This means that the
        # pin was changed.  In this case we count a bad auth and unset the
        # cookie.  This way it becomes harder to guess the cookie name
        # instead of the pin as we still count up failures.
        bad_cookie = False
        if trust is None:
            self._fail_pin_auth()
            bad_cookie = True

        # If we're trusted, we're authenticated.
        elif trust:
            auth = True

        # If we failed too many times, then we're locked out.
        elif self._failed_pin_auth > 10:
            exhausted = True

        # Otherwise go through pin based authentication
        else:
            entered_pin = request.args.get("pin")
            if entered_pin.strip().replace("-", "") == self.pin.replace("-", ""):
                self._failed_pin_auth = 0
                auth = True
            else:
                self._fail_pin_auth()

        rv = Response(
            json.dumps({"auth": auth, "exhausted": exhausted}),
            mimetype="application/json",
        )
        if auth:
            rv.set_cookie(
                self.pin_cookie_name,
                "%s|%s" % (int(time.time()), hash_pin(self.pin)),
                httponly=True,
            )
        elif bad_cookie:
            rv.delete_cookie(self.pin_cookie_name)
        return rv