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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 _shape_text(self, text, colsep=u"\t", rowsep=u"\n",
 transpose=False, skiprows=0, comments='#'):

 """Decode the shape of the given text"""

        assert colsep != rowsep
        out = []
        text_rows = text.split(rowsep)[skiprows:]
        for row in text_rows:
            stripped = to_text_string(row).strip()
            if len(stripped) == 0 or stripped.startswith(comments):
                continue
            line = to_text_string(row).split(colsep)
            line = [try_to_parse(to_text_string(x)) for x in line]
            out.append(line)
        # Replace missing elements with np.nan's or None's
        if programs.is_module_installed('numpy'):
            from numpy import nan
            out = list(zip_longest(*out, fillvalue=nan))
        else:
            out = list(zip_longest(*out, fillvalue=None))
        # Tranpose the last result to get the expected one
        out = [[r[col] for r in out] for col in range(len(out[0]))]
        if transpose:
            return [[r[col] for r in out] for col in range(len(out[0]))]
        return out