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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 is_timeout(self):
        '''
        Check if the lapse between initialization and now is more than ``self.timeout``.
        '''
        lapse = datetime.datetime.now() - self.init_time
        return lapse > datetime.timedelta(seconds=self.timeout)