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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 timedelta_seconds(timedelta):

 """Returns the total timedelta duration in seconds."""

    return (timedelta.total_seconds() if hasattr(timedelta, "total_seconds")
            else timedelta.days * 24 * 3600 + timedelta.seconds +
                 timedelta.microseconds / 1000000.)