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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 empty_bar_plot(ax):
    ''' Delete all axis ticks and labels '''
    plt.sca(ax)
    plt.setp(plt.gca(),xticks=[],xticklabels=[]) 
    return ax