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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 columns(self):
 """Index of the column names present in the DataFrame in order. Returns ------- Index """

        return Index(np.array(self._gather_column_names(), dtype=np.bytes_), np.dtype(np.bytes_))