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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 first(self, skipna=None, keep_attrs=None):
 """Return the first element of each group along the group dimension """

        return self._first_or_last(duck_array_ops.first, skipna, keep_attrs)