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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 options(argv=[]):
 """ A helper function that returns a dictionary of the default key-values pairs """

    parser = HendrixOptionParser
    parsed_args = parser.parse_args(argv)
    return vars(parsed_args[0])