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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 _dump(self, stream, pattern=None, object_ids=False):
 """Dumps current tree into a text stream."""

        return self._lists[pattern]._dump(stream, '', object_ids=object_ids)