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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 _optlist(self):
 """Get a string representation of the options in short format."""

    res = ""
    for o in self.options:
        res += o.short
        if o.argName is not None:
          res += ":"
    return res