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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 count(self):
 """ Explicit count of the number of items. For lazy or distributed data, will force a computation. """

        if self.mode == 'spark':
            return self.tordd().count()

        if self.mode == 'local':
            return prod(self.values.values.shape)