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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 _apply(self, func, name, window=None, center=None, check_minp=None, **kwargs):
 """ Dispatch to apply; we are stripping all of the _apply kwargs and performing the original function call on the grouped object. """


        def f(x, name=name, *args):
            x = self._shallow_copy(x)

            if isinstance(name, str):
                return getattr(x, name)(*args, **kwargs)

            return x.apply(name, *args, **kwargs)

        return self._groupby.apply(f)