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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 init_config(policy_config):
 """Get policy lambda execution configuration. cli parameters are serialized into the policy lambda config, we merge those with any policy specific execution options. --assume role and -s output directory get special handling, as to disambiguate any cli context. account id is sourced from the config options or from api call and cached as a global """

    global account_id

    exec_options = policy_config.get('execution-options', {})

    # Remove some configuration options that don't make sense to translate from
    # cli to lambda automatically.
    #  - assume role on cli doesn't translate, it is the default lambda role and
    #    used to provision the lambda.
    #  - profile doesnt translate to lambda its `home` dir setup dependent
    #  - dryrun doesn't translate (and shouldn't be present)
    #  - region doesn't translate from cli (the lambda is bound to a region), and
    #    on the cli represents the region the lambda is provisioned in.
    for k in ('assume_role', 'profile', 'region', 'dryrun', 'cache'):
        exec_options.pop(k, None)

    # a cli local directory doesn't translate to lambda
    if not exec_options.get('output_dir', '').startswith('s3'):
        exec_options['output_dir'] = get_local_output_dir()

    # we can source account id from the cli parameters to avoid the sts call
    if exec_options.get('account_id'):
        account_id = exec_options['account_id']

    # merge with policy specific configuration
    exec_options.update(
        policy_config['policies'][0].get('mode', {}).get('execution-options', {}))

    # if using assume role in lambda ensure that the correct
    # execution account is captured in options.
    if 'assume_role' in exec_options:
        account_id = exec_options['assume_role'].split(':')[4]
    elif account_id is None:
        session = boto3.Session()
        account_id = get_account_id_from_sts(session)
    exec_options['account_id'] = account_id

    # Historical compatibility with manually set execution options
    # previously this was a boolean, its now a string value with the
    # boolean flag triggering a string value of 'aws'
    if 'metrics_enabled' in exec_options \
       and isinstance(exec_options['metrics_enabled'], bool) \
       and exec_options['metrics_enabled']:
        exec_options['metrics_enabled'] = 'aws'

    return Config.empty(**exec_options)