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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 parse_pictures(self, picture_page):
 """Parses the DOM and returns character pictures attributes. :type picture_page: :class:`bs4.BeautifulSoup` :param picture_page: MAL character pictures page's DOM :rtype: dict :return: character pictures attributes. """

    character_info = self.parse_sidebar(picture_page)
    second_col = picture_page.find(u'div', {'id': 'content'}).find(u'table').find(u'tr').find_all(u'td', recursive=False)[1]

    try:
      picture_table = second_col.find(u'table', recursive=False)
      character_info[u'pictures'] = []
      if picture_table:
        character_info[u'pictures'] = map(lambda img: img.get(u'src').decode('utf-8'), picture_table.find_all(u'img'))
    except:
      if not self.session.suppress_parse_exceptions:
        raise

    return character_info