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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 clean_response(response):
 """ Cleans string quoting in response. """

    response = re.sub("^['\"]", "", response)
    response = re.sub("['\"]$", "", response)
    return response