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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 create_properties(self):
 # pylint: disable=no-self-use """ Format the properties with which to instantiate the connection. This acts like a user agent over HTTP. :rtype: dict """

        properties = {}
        properties["product"] = "eventhub.python"
        properties["version"] = __version__
        properties["framework"] = "Python {}.{}.{}".format(*sys.version_info[0:3])
        properties["platform"] = sys.platform
        return properties