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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 _post_query(self, **query_dict):
 """Perform a POST query against Solr and return the response as a Python dict."""

        param_dict = query_dict.copy()
        return self._send_query(do_post=True, **param_dict)