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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 _setup_constants(alphabet=NAMESPACE_CHARACTERS, max_length=MAX_NAMESPACE_LENGTH, batch_size=NAMESPACE_BATCH_SIZE):
 """Calculate derived constant values. Only useful for testing."""


  global NAMESPACE_CHARACTERS
  global MAX_NAMESPACE_LENGTH
  # pylint: disable=global-variable-undefined
  global MAX_NAMESPACE
  global _LEX_DISTANCE
  global NAMESPACE_BATCH_SIZE

  NAMESPACE_CHARACTERS = alphabet
  MAX_NAMESPACE_LENGTH = max_length
  MAX_NAMESPACE = NAMESPACE_CHARACTERS[-1] * MAX_NAMESPACE_LENGTH
  NAMESPACE_BATCH_SIZE = batch_size

  # _LEX_DISTANCE will contain the lexical distance between two adjacent
  # characters in NAMESPACE_CHARACTERS at each character index. This is used
  # to calculate the ordinal for each string. Example:
  # NAMESPACE_CHARACTERS = 'ab'
  # MAX_NAMESPACE_LENGTH = 3
  # _LEX_DISTANCE = [1, 3, 7]
  # ''    => 0
  # 'a'   => 1
  # 'aa'  => 2
  # 'aaa' => 3
  # 'aab' => 4 - Distance between 'aaa' and 'aab' is 1.
  # 'ab'  => 5 - Distance between 'aa' and 'ab' is 3.
  # 'aba' => 6
  # 'abb' => 7
  # 'b'   => 8 - Distance between 'a' and 'b' is 7.
  # 'ba'  => 9
  # 'baa' => 10
  # 'bab' => 11
  # ...
  # _namespace_to_ord('bab') = (1 * 7 + 1) + (0 * 3 + 1) + (1 * 1 + 1) = 11
  _LEX_DISTANCE = [1]
  for i in range(1, MAX_NAMESPACE_LENGTH):
    _LEX_DISTANCE.append(
        _LEX_DISTANCE[i-1] * len(NAMESPACE_CHARACTERS) + 1)
  # pylint: disable=undefined-loop-variable
  del i