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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 _can_hold_element(self, element):
 """ require the same dtype as ourselves """

        dtype = self.values.dtype.type
        tipo = maybe_infer_dtype_type(element)
        if tipo is not None:
            return issubclass(tipo.type, dtype)
        return isinstance(element, dtype)