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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 _create_api_uri(self, *parts):
 """Internal helper for creating fully qualified endpoint URIs."""

        return urljoin(self.BASE_API_URI, '/'.join(imap(quote, parts)))