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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 get_min_distance(element):
 """ Gets the minimum sampling distance of the x- and y-coordinates in a grid. """

    try:
        from scipy.spatial.distance import pdist
        return pdist(element.array([0, 1])).min()
    except:
        return _get_min_distance_numpy(element)