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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 get(self, url, status):
 """ in favor of python-requests for speed """


        # consistently faster than requests by 3x
        #
        # r = requests.get(url,
        #                  headers={'User-Agent': self.user_agent})
        # return r.text

        crl = self.cobj

        try:
            crl.setopt(pycurl.URL, url)
        except UnicodeEncodeError:
            crl.setopt(pycurl.URL, url.encode('utf-8'))

        if not self.silent:
            print(status, file=sys.stderr)

        if self.DISABLED:
            print("Requests DISABLED", file=sys.stderr)
        else:
            return self.curl_perform(crl)