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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 _increment(self, what, host):
        ''' helper function to bump a statistic '''

        self.processed[host] = 1
        prev = (getattr(self, what)).get(host, 0)
        getattr(self, what)[host] = prev+1