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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 _generate_tokens(self, text):
 """ Generates tokens for the given code. """

    # This is technically an undocumented API for Python3, but allows us to use the same API as for
    # Python2. See http://stackoverflow.com/a/4952291/328565.
    for index, tok in enumerate(tokenize.generate_tokens(io.StringIO(text).readline)):
      tok_type, tok_str, start, end, line = tok
      yield Token(tok_type, tok_str, start, end, line, index,
                  self._line_numbers.line_to_offset(start[0], start[1]),
                  self._line_numbers.line_to_offset(end[0], end[1]))