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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 slices(self):
 """ The bounding box as a tuple of `slice` objects. The slice tuple is in numpy axis order (i.e. ``(y, x)``) and therefore can be used to slice numpy arrays. """


        return (slice(self.iymin, self.iymax), slice(self.ixmin, self.ixmax))