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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 serialized(self):
 """ Returns a serialized representation of this task."""

        serialized = {}
        for k, v in six.iteritems(self):
            serialized[k] = self._serialize(k, v, self._fields)
        return serialized