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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 evaluate_expression(expression, vars):
    '''evaluation an expression'''
    try:
        v = eval(expression, globals(), vars)
    except NameError:
        return None
    except ZeroDivisionError:
        return None
    return v