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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 table_metadata(self, database, table):
        "Fetch table-specific metadata."
        return (self.metadata("databases") or {}).get(database, {}).get(
            "tables", {}
        ).get(
            table, {}
        )