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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 _abortJobs( self, js ):
 """Private method to abort a set of jobs. :param js: the job ids to be aborted"""

        self.open()
        self._client.abort(jobs = js)
        self.close()