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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_c_valid_arr(self, x):
 """ Warning! Interpretation of axes is different for C code. """

        orig_shape = x.shape
        x = np.ascontiguousarray(x.reshape(orig_shape[0], -1).T)
        return orig_shape, x