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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 scan(self, scan_filter=None, attributes_to_get=None, request_limit=None, max_results=None, count=False, exclusive_start_key=None, item_class=Item):
 """ Scan through this table, this is a very long and expensive operation, and should be avoided if at all possible. :type scan_filter: A list of tuples :param scan_filter: A list of tuples where each tuple consists of an attribute name, a comparison operator, and either a scalar or tuple consisting of the values to compare the attribute to. Valid comparison operators are shown below along with the expected number of values that should be supplied. * EQ - equal (1) * NE - not equal (1) * LE - less than or equal (1) * LT - less than (1) * GE - greater than or equal (1) * GT - greater than (1) * NOT_NULL - attribute exists (0, use None) * NULL - attribute does not exist (0, use None) * CONTAINS - substring or value in list (1) * NOT_CONTAINS - absence of substring or value in list (1) * BEGINS_WITH - substring prefix (1) * IN - exact match in list (N) * BETWEEN - >= first value, <= second value (2) :type attributes_to_get: list :param attributes_to_get: A list of attribute names. If supplied, only the specified attribute names will be returned. Otherwise, all attributes will be returned. :type request_limit: int :param request_limit: The maximum number of items to retrieve from Amazon DynamoDB on each request. You may want to set a specific request_limit based on the provisioned throughput of your table. The default behavior is to retrieve as many results as possible per request. :type max_results: int :param max_results: The maximum number of results that will be retrieved from Amazon DynamoDB in total. For example, if you only wanted to see the first 100 results from the query, regardless of how many were actually available, you could set max_results to 100 and the generator returned from the query method will only yeild 100 results max. :type count: bool :param count: If True, Amazon DynamoDB returns a total number of items for the Scan operation, even if the operation has no matching items for the assigned filter. :type exclusive_start_key: list or tuple :param exclusive_start_key: Primary key of the item from which to continue an earlier query. This would be provided as the LastEvaluatedKey in that query. :type item_class: Class :param item_class: Allows you to override the class used to generate the items. This should be a subclass of :class:`boto.dynamodb.item.Item` :rtype: generator """

        return self.layer2.scan(self, scan_filter, attributes_to_get,
                                request_limit, max_results,
                                exclusive_start_key, item_class=item_class)