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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 cftime_to_nptime(times):
 """Given an array of cftime.datetime objects, return an array of numpy.datetime64 objects of the same size"""

    times = np.asarray(times)
    new = np.empty(times.shape, dtype='M8[ns]')
    for i, t in np.ndenumerate(times):
        try:
            # Use pandas.Timestamp in place of datetime.datetime, because
            # NumPy casts it safely it np.datetime64[ns] for dates outside
            # 1678 to 2262 (this is not currently the case for
            # datetime.datetime).
            dt = pd.Timestamp(t.year, t.month, t.day, t.hour, t.minute,
                              t.second, t.microsecond)
        except ValueError as e:
            raise ValueError('Cannot convert date {} to a date in the '
                             'standard calendar.  Reason: {}.'.format(t, e))
        new[i] = np.datetime64(dt)
    return new