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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 getset(self, key, value, *, encoding=_NOTSET):
 """Set the string value of a key and return its old value."""

        return self.execute(b'GETSET', key, value, encoding=encoding)