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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 join(self, dic):
 """ Add dic pairs to self.data """

        for k,v in dic.iteritems():
            if k in self.data:
                self[k] += dic[k]
            else:
                self[k] = deepcopy(v)
        return self