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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 reply_count(self, url, mode=5, after=0):
 """ Return comment count for main thread and all reply threads for one url. """


        sql = ['SELECT comments.parent,count(*)',
               'FROM comments INNER JOIN threads ON',
               '   threads.uri=? AND comments.tid=threads.id AND',
               '   (? | comments.mode = ?) AND',
               '   comments.created > ?',
               'GROUP BY comments.parent']

        return dict(self.db.execute(sql, [url, mode, mode, after]).fetchall())