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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 value(self):
 """gets the value as a dictionary"""

        return {
            "type" : self._type,
            "name" : self._name,
            "range" : [self._rangeMin, self._rangeMax]
        }