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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 cmdargs(mysqldump: str, username: str, password: str, database: str, verbose: bool, with_drop_create_database: bool, max_allowed_packet: str, hide_password: bool = False) -> List[str]: """ Returns command arguments for a ``mysqldump`` call. Args: mysqldump: ``mysqldump`` executable filename username: user name password: password database: database name verbose: verbose output? with_drop_create_database: produce commands to ``DROP`` the database and recreate it? max_allowed_packet: passed to ``mysqldump`` hide_password: obscure the password (will break the arguments but provide a safe version to show the user)? Returns: list of command-line arguments """

    ca = [
        mysqldump,
        "-u", username,
        "-p{}".format("*****" if hide_password else password),
        "--max_allowed_packet={}".format(max_allowed_packet),
        "--hex-blob",  # preferable to raw binary in our .sql file
    ]
    if verbose:
        ca.append("--verbose")
    if with_drop_create_database:
        ca.extend([
            "--add-drop-database",
            "--databases",
            database
        ])
    else:
        ca.append(database)
        pass
    return ca