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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 sendcommand(self, name, **kwargs):
 """ send a named parametrized command to the other side. """

        self.log("sending command %s(**%s)" % (name, kwargs))
        self.channel.send((name, kwargs))