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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 is_number(dtype):

 """Return True is datatype dtype is a number kind"""

    return is_float(dtype) or ('int' in dtype.name) or ('long' in dtype.name) \
           or ('short' in dtype.name)