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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 get_tables(self, table_name="", **kwargs):
 """ get all the tables of the currently connected db table_name -- string -- if you would like to filter the tables list to only include matches with this name return -- list -- a list of table names """

        with self.connection(**kwargs) as connection:
            kwargs['connection'] = connection
            return self._get_tables(str(table_name), **kwargs)