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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 persist(self):
 """a private method that persists an object to the filesystem"""

        if self.hash:
            with open(self.file_name, 'wb') as f:
                pickle.dump(self.object_property, f)
            return True
        return False