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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 prepare_request(self, kwargs):
 """ If session is in use, prepares the request headers and checks if the session is expired. """

        if self.session_id is not None:
            actual = dt.datetime.now()

            if (self.last_activity + self.inactivity_limit) < actual:
                # session expired
                if self.persist:
                    # request new session
                    self.create_session()
                    actual = dt.datetime.now()
                else:
                    # raise error and recommend to manualy refresh session
                    raise RuntimeError('A non Persistent Session is expired. '
                                       'For consistency reasons this exception is raised. '
                                       'Please try again with manual refresh of the session ')
            self.last_activity = actual

            headers = kwargs.get('headers')
            if headers is None:
                kwargs['headers'] = headers = {}
            headers['workbook-session-id'] = self.session_id