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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 _merge_out_from_infiles(in_files):
 """Generate output merged file name from set of input files. Handles non-shared filesystems where we don't know output path when setting up split parts. """

    fname = os.path.commonprefix([os.path.basename(f) for f in in_files])
    while fname.endswith(("-", "_", ".")):
        fname = fname[:-1]
    ext = os.path.splitext(in_files[0])[-1]
    dirname = os.path.dirname(in_files[0])
    while dirname.endswith(("split", "merge")):
        dirname = os.path.dirname(dirname)
    return os.path.join(dirname, "%s%s" % (fname, ext))