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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 _dict(content):
 """ Helper funcation that converts text-based get response to a python dictionary for additional manipulation. """

    if _has_pandas:
        data = _data_frame(content).to_dict(orient='records')
    else:
        response = loads(content)
        key = [x for x in response.keys() if x in c.response_data][0]
        data = response[key]
    return data