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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 highlight_null(self, null_color='red'):
 """ Shade the background ``null_color`` for missing values. Parameters null_color : str Returns ------- self : Styler """

        self.applymap(self._highlight_null, null_color=null_color)
        return self