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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 dump(config):
 """Returns the entire content of the config object in a way that can be easily examined, compared or dumped to a string or file. :param config: The configuration object to dump :rtype: dict """

        def _dump(element):
            if not isinstance(element, config.__class__):
                return element

            section = dict()
            for key, subsection in element._subsections.items():
                section[key] = _dump(subsection)
            for key in element:
                section[key] = getattr(element, key)
            return section

        return _dump(config)