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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 change_count(self):

 """ The number of changes in the working directory. """

        status = self.git.status(porcelain=True, untracked_files='no').strip()
        if not status:
            return 0
        else:
            return len(status.split('\n'))