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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 _content_blocks(self, r):
 """Number of content blocks in block row `r`."""

    return (self._block_rows - self._left_zero_blocks(r)
            - self._right_zero_blocks(r))