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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 inspect_axes(ax):
 """Inspect an axes or subplot to get the initialization parameters"""

        ret = {'fig': ax.get_figure().number}
        if mpl.__version__ < '2.0':
            ret['axisbg'] = ax.get_axis_bgcolor()
        else:  # axisbg is depreceated
            ret['facecolor'] = ax.get_facecolor()
        proj = getattr(ax, 'projection', None)
        if proj is not None and not isinstance(proj, six.string_types):
            proj = (proj.__class__.__module__, proj.__class__.__name__)
        ret['projection'] = proj
        ret['visible'] = ax.get_visible()
        ret['spines'] = {}
        ret['zorder'] = ax.get_zorder()
        ret['yaxis_inverted'] = ax.yaxis_inverted()
        ret['xaxis_inverted'] = ax.xaxis_inverted()
        for key, val in ax.spines.items():
            ret['spines'][key] = {}
            for prop in ['linestyle', 'edgecolor', 'linewidth',
                         'facecolor', 'visible']:
                ret['spines'][key][prop] = getattr(val, 'get_' + prop)()
        if isinstance(ax, mfig.SubplotBase):
            sp = ax.get_subplotspec().get_topmost_subplotspec()
            ret['grid_spec'] = sp.get_geometry()[:2]
            ret['subplotspec'] = [sp.num1, sp.num2]
            ret['is_subplot'] = True
        else:
            ret['args'] = [ax.get_position(True).bounds]
            ret['is_subplot'] = False
        return ret