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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 whereless(self, fieldname, value):
 """ Returns a new DataTable with rows only where the value at `fieldname` < `value`. """

        return self.mask([elem < value for elem in self[fieldname]])