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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 ticker(self, base="btc", quote="usd"):
 """ Returns dictionary. """

        url = self._construct_url("ticker/", base, quote)
        return self._get(url, return_json=True, version=2)