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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 AsPrimitiveProto(self):
 """Return an old style protocol buffer object."""

    if self.protobuf:
      result = self.protobuf()
      result.ParseFromString(self.SerializeToString())
      return result