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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 incr(self, item, value):
 """Increment a key by the given amount."""

    if item in self:
      old = UserDict.__getitem__(self, item)
    else:
      old = 0.0
    self[item] = old + value