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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 number_of_pages(self, key, value):
 """Populate the ``number_of_pages`` key."""

    result = maybe_int(force_single_element(value.get('a', '')))
    if result and result > 0:
        return result