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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 _request(self, proxy, timeout):
 """ Returns WPToolsRequest object """

        return request.WPToolsRequest(self.flags['silent'],
                                      self.flags['verbose'],
                                      proxy, timeout)