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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 items(self, limit=10000):
 """ Return all of the Items and Collections for this search """

        _limit = 500
        if 'ids' in self.kwargs:
            col = self.kwargs.get('query', {}).get('collection', {}).get('eq', None)
            if col is None:
                raise SatSearchError('Collection required when searching by id')
            return self.items_by_id(self.kwargs['ids'], col)

        items = []
        found = self.found()
        if found > limit:
            logger.warning('There are more items found (%s) than the limit (%s) provided.' % (found, limit))
        maxitems = min(found, limit)
        kwargs = {
            'page': 1,
            'limit': min(_limit, maxitems)
        }
        kwargs.update(self.kwargs)
        while len(items) < maxitems:
            items += [Item(i) for i in self.query(**kwargs)['features']]
            kwargs['page'] += 1

        # retrieve collections
        collections = []
        for c in set([item.properties['collection'] for item in items if 'collection' in item.properties]):
            collections.append(self.collection(c))
            #del collections[c]['links']

        # merge collections into items
        #_items = []
        #for item in items:
        #    import pdb; pdb.set_trace()
        #    if 'collection' in item['properties']:
        #        item = dict_merge(item, collections[item['properties']['collection']])
        #    _items.append(Item(item))

        return Items(items, collections=collections, search=self.kwargs)