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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 zip_args(args, config=None):
 """Compress arguments using msgpack. """

    if msgpack:
        return [msgpack.packb(x, use_single_float=True, use_bin_type=True) for x in args]
    else:
        return args