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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 _ordereddict2dict(input_ordered_dict):
    '''
    Convert ordered dictionary to a dictionary
    '''
    return salt.utils.json.loads(salt.utils.json.dumps(input_ordered_dict))