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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 _set_table(self, data):
 """Set current parsing state to 'table', create new table object and add it to tables collection """

        self.set_state('table')
        self.current_table = HEPTable(index=len(self.tables) + 1)
        self.tables.append(self.current_table)
        self.data.append(self.current_table.metadata)