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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 GetDictToFormat(self):
 """Return a copy of self as a dict, suitable for passing to FormatProblem"""

    d = {}
    for k, v in self.__dict__.items():
      # TODO: Better handling of unicode/utf-8 within Schedule objects.
      # Concatinating a unicode and utf-8 str object causes an exception such
      # as "UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte ..." as python
      # tries to convert the str to a unicode. To avoid that happening within
      # the problem reporter convert all unicode attributes to utf-8.
      # Currently valid utf-8 fields are converted to unicode in _ReadCsvDict.
      # Perhaps all fields should be left as utf-8.
      d[k] = util.EncodeUnicode(v)
    return d