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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 metric_value_is_better(new: float, old: float, metric: str) -> bool: """ Returns true if new value is strictly better than old for given metric. """

    if C.METRIC_MAXIMIZE[metric]:
        return new > old
    else:
        return new < old