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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 stats(self, using=None, **kwargs):
 """ Retrieve statistics on different operations happening on the index. Any additional keyword arguments will be passed to ``Elasticsearch.indices.stats`` unchanged. """

        return self._get_connection(using).indices.stats(index=self._name, **kwargs)