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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 virtualfields(self):
 """Returns a tuple listing the names of virtual fields in self. """

        if self._virtualfields is None:
            vfs = tuple()
        else:
            vfs = tuple(self._virtualfields)
        return vfs