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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 equal(self, path_a, path_b):
 """ compare if a and b have the same bytes """

        content_a, _ = self.get_bytes(path_a)
        content_b, _ = self.get_bytes(path_b)

        return content_a == content_b