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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 total_errors(self):
 """ The total number of errors in the entire tree, including children. """


        child_errors = sum(len(tree) for _, tree in iteritems(self._contents))
        return len(self.errors) + child_errors