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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 kwargs_helper(kwargs):
 """This function preprocesses the kwargs dictionary to sanitize it."""


    args = []
    for param, value in kwargs.items():
        param = kw_subst.get(param, param)
        args.append((param, value))
    return args