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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 ekccnt(table):
 """ Return the number of distinct columns in a specified, currently loaded table. http://naif.jpl.nasa.gov/pub/naif/toolkit_docs/C/cspice/ekccnt_c.html :param table: Name of table. :type table: str :return: Count of distinct, currently loaded columns. :rtype: int """

    table = stypes.stringToCharP(table)
    ccount = ctypes.c_int()
    libspice.ekccnt_c(table, ctypes.byref(ccount))
    return ccount.value