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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 stoch2array(self):
 """Return the stochastic objects as an array."""

        a = np.empty(self.dim)
        for stochastic in self.stochastics:
            a[self._slices[stochastic]] = stochastic.value
        return a