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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 _prepend_name(self, prefix, dict_):
        '''changes the keys of the dictionary prepending them with "name."'''
        return dict(['.'.join([prefix, name]), msg]
                    for name, msg in dict_.iteritems())