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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 linspace2(a, b, n, dtype=None):
 """similar to numpy.linspace but excluding the boundaries this is the normal numpy.linspace: [ 0. 0.25 0.5 0.75 1. ] and this gives excludes the boundaries: [ 0.1 0.3 0.5 0.7 0.9] """

    a = linspace(a, b, n + 1, dtype=dtype)[:-1]
    if len(a) > 1:
        diff01 = ((a[1] - a[0]) / 2).astype(a.dtype)
        a += diff01
    return a