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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 sanitizer(name, replacements=[(':','_'), ('/','_'), ('\\','_')]):
 """ String sanitizer to avoid problematic characters in filenames. """

    for old,new in replacements:
        name = name.replace(old,new)
    return name