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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 backtick (cmd, encoding='utf-8'):
 """Return decoded output from command."""

    data = subprocess.Popen(cmd, stdout=subprocess.PIPE).communicate()[0]
    return data.decode(encoding)