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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 _full_like_variable(other, fill_value, dtype: Union[str, np.dtype, None] = None):
 """Inner function of full_like, where other must be a variable """

    from .variable import Variable

    if isinstance(other.data, dask_array_type):
        import dask.array
        if dtype is None:
            dtype = other.dtype
        data = dask.array.full(other.shape, fill_value, dtype=dtype,
                               chunks=other.data.chunks)
    else:
        data = np.full_like(other, fill_value, dtype=dtype)

    return Variable(dims=other.dims, data=data, attrs=other.attrs)