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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 normalize(name):
 """Normalize name for the Statsd convention"""


    # Name should not contain some specials chars (issue #1068)
    ret = name.replace(':', '')
    ret = ret.replace('%', '')
    ret = ret.replace(' ', '_')

    return ret