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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 parallel(processes, threads):
 """ execute jobs in processes using N threads """

    pool = multithread(threads)
    pool.map(run_process, processes)
    pool.close()
    pool.join()