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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 hide_columns(self, subset):
 """ Hide columns from rendering. .. versionadded:: 0.23.0 Parameters subset : IndexSlice An argument to ``DataFrame.loc`` that identifies which columns are hidden. Returns ------- self : Styler """

        subset = _non_reducing_slice(subset)
        hidden_df = self.data.loc[subset]
        self.hidden_columns = self.columns.get_indexer_for(hidden_df.columns)
        return self