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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 filter(self, query: str) -> Optional['CompatNodeIterator']: """ Further filter the results using this iterator as base. """

        if not self._last_node:
            return None

        return filter(self._last_node, query)