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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 _resolve_default(data_type, listify=False):
 """Retrieve the default value for a given data type."""

    if isinstance(data_type, _ATOMIC):
        # A Python's object type needs to be left as is instead of being
        # wrapped into a NumPy type.
        out = (data_type.default if isinstance(data_type, Object)
               else _get_atomic_dtype(data_type)(data_type.default))
    elif isinstance(data_type, Array):
        element_default = _resolve_default(data_type.element_type,
                                           listify=listify)
        Sequence = list if listify else tuple
        shape = ((data_type.shape,) if isinstance(data_type.shape, int)
                 else data_type.shape)
        out = element_default
        for dimension in shape:
            out = Sequence(copy.deepcopy(out) for _ in _range(dimension))
    elif isinstance(data_type, Structure):
        if listify:
            out = [_resolve_default(field.type, listify=listify)
                   for field in data_type.fields]
        else:
            field_defaults = collections.OrderedDict(
                (field.name, _resolve_default(field.type, listify=listify))
                for field in data_type.fields)
            name = ('StructureDefault_%s' % (data_type.name,)
                    if data_type.name else 'StructureDefault')
            struct = collections.namedtuple(name, field_defaults.keys())
            out = struct(**field_defaults)

    return out