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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_os_properties():
 """Retrieve distribution properties. **Note that platform.linux_distribution and platform.dist are deprecated and will be removed in Python 3.7. By that time, distro will become mandatory. """

    if IS_DISTRO_INSTALLED:
        return distro.linux_distribution(full_distribution_name=False)
    return platform.linux_distribution(full_distribution_name=False)