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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 make_dict(fields, fields_kwargs):
 """lot's of methods take a dict or kwargs, this combines those Basically, we do a lot of def method(fields, **kwargs) and we want to merge those into one super dict with kwargs taking precedence, this does that fields -- dict -- a passed in dict fields_kwargs -- dict -- usually a **kwargs dict from another function return -- dict -- a merged fields and fields_kwargs """

    ret = {}
    if fields:
        ret.update(fields)

    if fields_kwargs:
        ret.update(fields_kwargs)

    return ret