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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 add_metric_names(self, names):
        "Add `names` to the inner metric names."
        if hasattr(self, '_added_met_names'): self._added_met_names += names
        else:                                 self._added_met_names  = names