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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 _parallel_compare_helper(class_obj, pairs, x, x_link=None):
 """Internal function to overcome pickling problem in python2."""

    return class_obj._compute(pairs, x, x_link)