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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 _delete_keys(dct, keys):
 """Returns a copy of dct without `keys` keys """

    c = deepcopy(dct)
    assert isinstance(keys, list)
    for k in keys:
        c.pop(k)
    return c