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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 write(self, arg):
 """ Write a string or bytes object to the buffer """

        if isinstance(arg, str):
            arg = arg.encode(self.encoding)
        return self._buffer.write(arg)