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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 from_dict(cls, d):
 """Instantiate a Variable from a dictionary representation."""

        return cls(
            d['type'], tuple(d['parents']), list(d['properties'].items())
        )