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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 inflect(self, text):
 """Inflect ``text`` if the ``inflect`` class Meta option is defined, otherwise do nothing. """

        return self.opts.inflect(text) if self.opts.inflect else text