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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 process_element(self, element, key, **params):
 """ The process_element method allows a single element to be operated on given an externally supplied key. """

        self.p = param.ParamOverrides(self, params)
        return self._apply(element, key)