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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 shard_stores(self, using=None, **kwargs):
 """ Provides store information for shard copies of the index. Store information reports on which nodes shard copies exist, the shard copy version, indicating how recent they are, and any exceptions encountered while opening the shard index or from earlier engine failure. Any additional keyword arguments will be passed to ``Elasticsearch.indices.shard_stores`` unchanged. """

        return self._get_connection(using).indices.shard_stores(index=self._name, **kwargs)