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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 numpy_buffer(ndarray):
 """Creates a buffer from c_contiguous numpy ndarray."""

    # Credits to: https://github.com/joblib/joblib/blob/04b001861e1dd03a857b7b419c336de64e05714c/joblib/hashing.py

    if isinstance(ndarray, (pd.Series, pd.DataFrame)):
        ndarray = ndarray.values

    if ndarray.flags.c_contiguous:
        obj_c_contiguous = ndarray
    elif ndarray.flags.f_contiguous:
        obj_c_contiguous = ndarray.T
    else:
        obj_c_contiguous = ndarray.flatten()

    obj_c_contiguous = obj_c_contiguous.view(np.uint8)

    if hasattr(np, 'getbuffer'):
        return np.getbuffer(obj_c_contiguous)
    else:
        return memoryview(obj_c_contiguous)