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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 compute_boxplot(self, series):
 """ Compute boxplot for given pandas Series. """

        from matplotlib.cbook import boxplot_stats
        series = series[series.notnull()]
        if len(series.values) == 0:
            return {}
        elif not is_numeric_dtype(series):
            return self.non_numeric_stats(series)
        stats = boxplot_stats(list(series.values))[0]
        stats['count'] = len(series.values)
        stats['fliers'] = "|".join(map(str, stats['fliers']))
        return stats