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# Reify
Transforms for converting between explicit and implicit form of various Beam values.

## Examples
See [BEAM-7389](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEAM-7389) for updates. 

## Related transforms 
* [WithTimestamps]({{ site.baseurl }}/documentation/transforms/python/elementwise/withtimestamps) assigns timestamps to all the elements of a collection.