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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 as_dtype(self):
 """ represent the heading as a numpy dtype """

        return np.dtype(dict(
            names=self.names,
            formats=[v.dtype for v in self.attributes.values()]))