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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 get_padding_value(dtype):
 """Returns the padding value given a dtype."""

  padding_value = None
  if dtype == np.uint8:
    padding_value = np.uint8(0)
  elif dtype == np.uint16:
    padding_value = np.uint16(0)
  elif dtype == np.float32:
    padding_value = 0.0
  else:
    padding_value = 0
  assert padding_value is not None
  return padding_value