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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 author_structure(user):
 """ An author structure. """

    return {'user_id': user.pk,
            'user_login': user.get_username(),
            'display_name': user.__str__(),
            'user_email': user.email}