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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 values(self):
 """ Deprecated method to access the ItemTable value dimension values. """

        self.param.warning('ItemTable values method is deprecated.')
        return tuple(self.data.get(d.name, np.NaN)
                     for d in self.vdims)