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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 unicodename(self):
 """The name of this path as unicode. """

        n = self._lib.basename(self.path)
        if self._backend is unicode:
            return n
        else:
            return n.decode(self._encoding, 'replace')