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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 push(self, *items):
 """ Prepends the list with @items -> #int length of list after operation """

        if self.serialized:
            items = list(map(self._dumps, items))
        return self._client.lpush(self.key_prefix, *items)