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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 attributes(self):
 """ Returns all attributes in the schema """

        attrs = self._schema["attributes"]
        return [item_attribute(attr) for attr in sorted(attrs.values(),
                key=operator.itemgetter("defindex"))]