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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 assign_attrs(self, *args, **kwargs):
 """Assign new attrs to this object. Returns a new object equivalent to self.attrs.update(*args, **kwargs). Parameters args : positional arguments passed into ``attrs.update``. kwargs : keyword arguments passed into ``attrs.update``. Returns ------- assigned : same type as caller A new object with the new attrs in addition to the existing data. See also -------- Dataset.assign """

        out = self.copy(deep=False)
        out.attrs.update(*args, **kwargs)
        return out