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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 pickle_dump(self):
 """Save the status of the object in pickle format."""

        with open(os.path.join(self.workdir, self.PICKLE_FNAME), mode="wb") as fh:
            pickle.dump(self, fh)