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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 _get_ll_pointer_type(self, target_data, context=None):
 """ Convert this type object to an LLVM type. """

        from . import Module, GlobalVariable
        from ..binding import parse_assembly

        if context is None:
            m = Module()
        else:
            m = Module(context=context)
        foo = GlobalVariable(m, self, name="foo")
        with parse_assembly(str(m)) as llmod:
            return llmod.get_global_variable(foo.name).type