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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 close_socket(sock):
    '''Shutdown and close the socket.'''
    if sock:
        try:
            sock.shutdown(socket.SHUT_RDWR)
        except Exception:
            pass
        try:
            sock.close()
        except Exception:
            pass